Silent Thoughts

Would you mind if I kissed you

Caressed your face

May I watch you from here

Or there

Your perfection in my soul

May I hold your hand

And swing our arms in joy

Can I wrap my arms around you

Hold you protective to myself

Will you let me live with you

As one man and woman

May I love you

May I love you

Will you hold me close

Comfort me as my end draws near

Forever I will love

Forever I have loved you

In Queue at the Windsor

We are all nice people

Apparently respectable

Middle age wide paunch saggy bummed

Academics and professionals and government workers

With the token mix of derelict

Abandoned in this stairway

In this building

Where the homeless abode

Denizens of those not blessed by God

With the good sense to secure a living

Entertained briefly by the soon to be tossed

To bear witness to the bouncer

Aggressive firm and polite

False appal silent approval

Our eyes avert the dispute when the outside door shuts

The concert will start soon

A murmur: Stew is here

Who?

Stew!

Couldn’t help it… who is Stew to you?

Stew is from the radio station,

At the U

He loves this down under artist

And is the reason we know to come to see him

In this down under building

Adorned with these graffitical ads

Of the venerable northern educational facility

Pukatawagan University

Puk-U

And so goes the queue

Opening Statement to Trial

You are no longer relevant

So says the former lover

"I miss you" formed

Then instantly denied

A lie?

Or survival?

Or truth?

Your Honour.