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Jon Tobias
Poems
Oct 2011
This Was Supposed to be Beautiful
It was nice finally hearing your voice again
The anticipation like staring down the barrel of a gun
Only to hear it jam
It is nice to know you are not some big bang
So that I may finally lay my weapons down
This shield was so heavy from the weight of your motion
My legs grew tired from keeping me faced in your direction
They spelled dizzy
In dirt brown cursive
The grooves I wore into the pavement
The sirenβs song singing so heavy
Working the cotton
Pulling it lose
You are not some siren song
Or a stampede when I put my ear to the ground
You are breath and bone
And break
as easily as I do
So let me learn to regret your whisper
Teaching my tongue
The taste of the secret Braille
On your teeth
Breaking my pattern like dancing
With all 4 of our left feet
The distance it takes your voice to travel
Thins out the shape of your longing
I know you
I know you
Like the nights where I thought I could hold you
But then realized my arms
Could never meet the circumference of your pedestal
Until you taught me to hammer
Dull chisel tip to your armor
Iβve finally lain my weapons down
After your voice misfired I love you
You can see my scars
Like a runway sash
From the top of my shoulder
Down to the opposite hip
They say
This Was Supposed to be Beautiful
And let me tell you again
That shield
It was so heavy
Written by
Jon Tobias
San Diego
(San Diego)
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