My good Geminian friends

mind-matched that we are

- the Archer’s arrows duly provoked

and tantalized - even reciprocated.

They write reams of scintillating prose, verse, letters, diaries

articles, notes, reports, diatribes, reviews, shopping lists

….anything with words

in chameleon, sky-larking everywhere-ness:

too articulate for their own good, by half;

and to keep pace with all the turnabouts, queries, non sequetors

to play back every parry

respond to every tempting, conceptual lure

(as I am bound to - incapable of not!)

is too much for my lugubrious, in-depth tools

the head-long intensities I wield

- however much  disguised by deliquent tangential peregrinations

speculative Uranian quantum leaps, reprobate dissent!

 

But I will take you on!

though on my own lateral-thinking terms, I admit:

sidling around each topic broached

but never with your lightening, linear thrust

your genius for synopsis, parenthesis.

But circling about

in the implacable and hypnotic strategies of the snake

- something predatory, primordial, slinky -

reason has very little to do with it

for all that it’s the medium we banter, barter, feint with, in!

 

And you, for your part I know

will only scan it with your speed-reading mind

pick a word, idea, phrase

here and there

and love me in return

eclectic - without conditions

… enchante¢!

…but, still, ah me!

remain mind-bound, something frantic

 always artful and then

 surprisingly bewildered

that the Answers never fully answer

and the words are not enough.

 

 

March 1989