CHARLES DODGE – SPEECH SONGS (1973)

When I am with you

When I am with you, I am two places at once.

When you are with me, you have just arrived

With a suitcase which you pack

With one hand and unpack with the other.

He destroyed her image

He destroyed her image and thus she was no longer.

When he saw her in the street

He knew he had seen her before,

But couldn’t place himself.

A man sitting in a cafeteria

A man sitting in a cafeteria

Had one enormous ear

And one tiny one.

Which was fake?

The days are ahead

The days are ahead

1,926,346 to 1,926,345.

Later the nights will catch up.

Mark Strand