2/14/16

for one I knew - Charles Bukowski

Of all the iron beds in paradise
yours was the most cruel
and I was smoke in your mirror
and you sluiced your hair with jade,
but you were a woman and I was a
boy, but boy enough for an iron bed
and man enough for wine
and you.

now I am a man,
man enough for all,
and you are, you
are
        old

not now so cruel,

now your iron bed
is empty.

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