AJA

Remember, it was Steely Dan
Aja. And some prophetic
Bullshit you were obsessed with
You had figured out some deep
Problem in quantum physics
Your eyes were bugged out.

I owned you that night
I was included in your miracle
Your soul at peace
Thank God! I didn't understand it
Because lying there naked,
You were like a shrine.

It was the first time
I realized that a woman
Was also like a man
That her intellect,
Could sweep her away
And every each thing
Could be only at the edge,
Ignored. I could be
At the edge.

I got away from you quick
Now that I'm older
And recall that wanton embrace,
And understand that intellect
Can be separate from love,
I regret that I feared
Being stupid.

You knew her too?

Small world, innit?

(I like that very much)

Mercy, mercy, mercy... "Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay: I'm martyr to a motion not my own; What's freedom for? To know eternity. I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. But who would count eternity in days? These old bones live to learn her wanton ways: (I measure time by how a body sways.)" T.R. Roethke