Garvin (a poem)

I'm not a taxi cab driver in this poem

I'm a window washer

And this poem may not rhyme either

As you may have guessed

I'm hanging thirty stories above the ground

I'm washing windows

And windows

And windows

My squeegee in one hang

Rag in another

Water pail on the board below me

Just washing windows

The hours aren't bad

No long hours

No short hours

Just medium hours

I finish a window and then move on

To the next one

And then the next one

And then the next one

Until I get to the top

And then

I'll do it again next week

I don't know why this is called Garvin

Just something to call it

I guess

You can quit reading now

I'm late for an appointment

My Dearest Wishing to Belong to Another Edithion

Fred said,

"It's customary to excuse oneself before trying anything so absurd

As to what you have

Suggested."

"But I thought,"

Sighed Clyde,

"That you would understand that I can't go on living

With this cursed condition

Hovering over us."

"Impatience Immanent Immaterial Immovable

Immense Immeasurable Immodest Imaniniums"

"Don't talk to me like that - it makes no sense. 

You're just blathering off words

That start with Im

As far as I can tell and

It has nothing to do with our relationship."

"Don't try to belittle my felicity.

Don't nullify this electricity.

The Federal District is full of Morons

Who cross the eye and dot the tee."

Sing me another love song

Once more

With feeling.

Play that saxophone.

One Thousand

Smile for me

Laugh for me

You're lovely

Frown for me

Cry for me

You're lovely

I could read your name

In one thousand lines of poetry

I could see your face

In one thousand works of art

Vicious Love

You don't have to cut a hole in my head

To let your love flow in.

You don't need to slash little tick marks in my arm

Trying to keep track of the times I say

I love you - again and again.

My memory of you, photographic;

You make my heart go psychopathic;

I couldn't live without the graphic

Whirlwind you spin.

You don't need to saw off my legs.

I promise I will never

Walk away from you.

You don't have to carve your name

In my skull, if it's all the same,

I know our love is true.