Copyright Graeme Murphy 2000-2021

 

      Goback

Love Poem In transit

 

Do you love me?

(the first Greek restaurant wants more dollars than I have)

 

You do?

 If you do love me

Would you write words to send

(that much I do)

to send to Zagreb just for me

 

Thumb raised you hot necked sun

Greek carts I wait for ride to Thessaloniki 

 

Your eyes’ tears stubborn wait in Zagreb

affect no unoiled tin to tender for Greek coffee

 

You do love me?

If you do love me

Then say how much you do love me

 

“With wings I’d fly above this caustic course to you

to lay my body stone hard as if to be some Aztec thing

wrenched from human tear strewn ways

to lie and scream my chest's holy cries

in pain, in angst, in care, no hype I do love you”

 

Then if you did love me

Love would not let passport stamp on him in transit

London 1989