Sunday
Feb052006
To Surge, With Love

Since you've been gone there is no more touching feet in the wee, small hours. I can't hear you sigh your dreams as the purr of the fan accompanies your not so gentle snores. I'm on your side of the bed, but I'm out here all alone.
My eyes dilate as I hurl through the blackness of our separation, sweeping across nondescript towns nestled in the square states.. until I locate you in my dreams. What city is it tonight, my love? And tomorrow? Where will you be then?
As I walk our dog down barren Brooklyn streets, we think of you. Since you've been gone he's misplaced his giddyup. Even his bird chasing lacks it's usual flair. He scuttles after squirrels like an ol' boy twice his age.
You flavor the air with Surgeness. Funny voices, spot on impressions, made up country songs are crooned as you bask in the sizzle of your signature stir fry you're happily cooking for the third time in as many days.
Sometimes I fear I don't deserve you, but I'ma goin' ta keep you anyway because I don't belong anywhere else. Even when we weren't together, when we were with other people we were desperately trying to squish into our preconception of The One, we belonged to each other.
Don't let me beat you down. I'm good at that. It's what you do when you've been beaten down so much you learn to pre-empt the anticipated beatdown with your own special brand of dysfunction.
Keep peeling this onion. I know it's unpleasant work that often makes you cry. The onion can be overpowering in her raw state. But if you keep at it, nudging her gently toward her potential, flavor her just right, she is delicious.
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Love and Marriage,
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Reader Comments (10)
Tomorrow we start heading east, baby.
I am coming home! Pull the blinds and get Max a bone....I am coming home.
I hear your voice in the pumping of gas.
love,
serge
This made me all verklempt. *sniff*
Sloopy - Love both the song and the movie.. To Sir, With Love and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner are my favorite Poitier movies.. too bad they made that abomination with Ashton Kutcher..