unsuitable suitors-Monday 10/23/2006

She tells me of many men who pursue her.
"ah, many suitors " I say
She laughs, "Yes, but all unsuitable."
"unsuitable suitors" I quip,
we both laugh.

I picture her then
A tattooed pierced post-modern Penelope
in pre-fab Ithaca.
Weaving and unweaving her tapestry
Deconstructing the self as a ploy of sorts
buying time.
Steadfast, single minded, uncreated.
coming to believe that Odysseus
lost Odysseus,
was never more than a dream.

She smiles and blinks
and kisses me with a rare passion.
Sure, I am the lost warrior from upon unkind seas
deadly islands and no win scenarios.
True. But I'm not sure
I'll ever be anyone's returning hero ever again.
A kind and broken one perhaps
but likely unsuitable
all the same.


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