Stalking much?

When you can only look...

Hid behind a book like some scene

living the pages of a magazine

as you walked by so close

I could have touched your prose

or at the very least looked up

… a temporary hook-up.

 

Two short blacks extra sugar,

six cigarettes a trigger

fifty odd pages turned

as my mind churned

and that thing, welling up

into a mental pile-up.

 

"Hello." I said it to your back

half expecting you'd react

and feel my voice and turn

seeing the pages burn.

 

Stalking much?

Nuh. Just once in every while

needing to beguile

just-enough and always

eyeing your passing phrase.

 

Today luck and a suited stranger

brought clear and present danger

within the shortest distance,

… a moment of resistance.

 

May well have been

a scene within

until I turned the page,

my every sense a rage

and realized you were real

… the stuff I like to steal.

Author's Note

Inspired by Woody, who has presented the possibility of style-change... and discovering a rhyming thingie on Google. I cheated...

Reviews

[Scott Durham]

While scenic and abstract, it reads very contrived and banal, almost too commonplace to critique. As an exercise in style I find it refreshing the way Don Van Vliet could work a saxophone into its grave. Will read anything you write, nonetheless.

[Elise Anton]

Ha ha, I was waiting for someone to take the stance you did. Glad to meet you! Woody and I have been discussing rhyme - he's a firm fan, I am the opposite. This was a tongue in cheek attempt, using a rhyming dictionary. It IS contrived in the sense that I would not normally write this way. "Clear and present danger..." Straight from that dictionary! No possibility of that phrase emerging from me! Glad you disapproved I guess :)

[Nisreen]

I guess what you seek
Seeks you

In all fairness
she probably is looking back
when you are not looking too

Life is very much balanced

i love the playful sense of writing here
its quite refreshing

[Elise Anton]

Thank you! Out of my confort zone with this one but it was fun, you are quite correct in picking this up!