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I miss your familiarity
with my silence
your understanding
of my laughter
and your simple way
of letting me know
that I was not alone
Younger days over,
She and I, what tapestry,
Innocence loomed.
 Sep 2013 Roberta Day
Helen
there is no grain of salt
or quote of the day
no kernel of truth
or anything to say
no worthless platitudes
not mentioned in title
or anything in particular
to make anyone smile
There is no meaning
to thoughts a rambling
or reason of being
leaving brains scrambling
don't meant it, don't say it
don't feel it, don't play it
don't kiss goodnight
if the morning light
doesn't include fingertips
tracing skin
followed by moist lips
inviting sin
no apathy against word play
on such a beautiful day
no understanding
just delirious
of a first kiss
 Sep 2013 Roberta Day
Ben
i woke up this morning
locked myself in the bathroom
with whiskey beer and netflix
a hot steam shower and
aching thoughts for a cigarette

they said be strong you'll make it in time
but all i see is a negative sum numbers game
ad infinitum forevermore on & on & on
another day another nicked nickel through my fingers

so instead of being a "productive" member of society
i'm drunk at 8:00 am and wallowing in self pity
but hey the shows are free
but this shower's gunna cost me
 Sep 2013 Roberta Day
Chuck
Mistress
 Sep 2013 Roberta Day
Chuck
Guilty pleasure
But time I treasure
Just you and I
No kids' screaming cry
No wife to bark orders
As we seek new borders
I stroke your limbs
My ego brims
You ride me away
From stresses in my day
Your frame is so light
I ride you just right
You transport my life
In a different way than my wife
I love the both of you
To you both I'll be true
But with you I'm physical
My wife is mystical
You create such sweat
The drips make you soaking wet
As I crank you on ascents
And coast down long descents
I get light headed
Nothing you do is dreaded
You carry me away
So I just needed to say
You are my mistress, my queen
I don't want to be obscene
But if loving you is wrong
Why does my wife sometimes ride along
If you haven't guessed, and I hope you have, my mistress is my bicycle. Actually I have six of them. It's okay; they know about each other. Haha
If I touch your face—
With lips, cool as cave water,
I am wishing well.
 Sep 2013 Roberta Day
N23
(untitled)
 Sep 2013 Roberta Day
N23
I do not hate you.  
                                                       But I wish that I did.

(Maybe it would make this
     aching loneliness
easier to accept
if I understood
why

you were not worth
      the love
                  you lost.)
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