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Zywa Sep 2024
I finger my gift

for her, it's almost as if --


she gave it to me.
Comical novel "The Black Prince" (1973, Iris Murdoch), A Celebration of Love, part Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Sep 2024
Something is coming

and it's making me restless --


It's a spring feeling.
Song "It might as well be spring" (1945, Oscar Hammerstein II, music Richard Rodgers, for the film "State Fair"), sung in 1955 by Sarah Vaughan, in 1958 by Nina Simone (album "The Amazing Nina Simone") and in 1961 by Frank Sinatra

Collection "Finethreads"
Zywa Sep 2024
Tears well up, how warm

they are, I didn't receive this --


gift for a long time.
Comical novel "The Black Prince" (1973, Iris Murdoch), A Celebration of Love, part Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Sep 2024
I'll be fine, but you,

whoever you'll love, don't smoke --


in bed anymore.
Song "Don't smoke in bed" (1947, Willard Robinson), sung in 1957 by Nina Simone (album "Little Girl Blue", 1959)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
Zywa Sep 2024
Hold me and kiss me,

I love you, forever, for --


as long as it lasts.
Song "For all we know" (1934, Sam Lewis, music J. Fred Coots), sung in 1958 by Nina Simone (album "The Amazing Nina Simone")

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Sep 2024
My lover doesn't care

for money and not for things --


He just cares for me.
Song "My baby just cares for me" (1930, Gus Kahn, music Walter Donaldson, for the movie-adaptation of the musical "Whoopee!"), sung in 1949 by Nat King Cole and in 1957 by Nina Simone (album "Little Girl Blue", 1959)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Sep 2024
A confused person

still assumes that others know --


what they are doing.
Comical novel "The Black Prince" (1973, Iris Murdoch), A Celebration of Love, part Two

Collection "Unspoken"
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