I Was Turned On By A Couple Today
Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Sigh
It’s been awhile. In the last month (over a month actually) in which I haven’t been blogging I’ve been desperately trying to soak up every last inch of New York City before I graduate and head back home and begin the process of actually contributing to society…
Home…I live a rough life
I’ve been:
- enjoying the last of my college classes
- tryin to hit up the museums and food vendors I haven’t checked out yet
- performing a read through of a new play based on James Agee’s novel Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- and just got done with a long weekend of acting showcases for agents.
In any case, at some point in April I wrote this short poem after a trip uptown and it’s since become a seed for a song that hopefully you’ll be hearing soon, so I’d like to share it with you now.
I Was Turned On By A Couple Today
MoMa (I was visiting, it didn’t seem to remember me)
Twists in her hair, compact, natural,
tho varied coloring
………………………
Wholesome lips a shade almost identical to the rest of her skin
Wide eye…her skin? her skin was tight, kind of like nutella
spread over a prodigious thought
That was she. He?
…
Thin. Black hair that was actually
probably brown. Skinny, not thin,
maybe a smoker now thinking about it
tho in the moment of my mind’s eye tobacco was anathema
…
Scraggly would be the wrong word.
Wistful? Closer. a Humble beard:
devoid of delusions of grandeur
but confident in its sleek toned mass
…
Pale, but in a cool way, earring probably
but irrelevent
…
I noticed her first (naturally),
her look to him
as he looked at the map
I looked away
…
I looked back…they kissed.
…
Her arm tugged on his (same height by the way)
one of those homey smushed kisses
where her upper lip expands over his (sensuously is the word, I think)
and her lower lip disappears in a melding
of hues and textures
…
I looked away.
…
afraid they might see
…
I was turned on by a couple today.
Not a lot, but a little.
I grabbed a pen and paper and wrote to you about it
…
Let’s kiss like that.
Copyright 2012 © by George Scholes Robson V
Be Righteous,
~ G.S.R.V
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