For Isabel on her graduation
Don’t change one tiny little thing.
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How soft it is around you
Like a padded room for lunatics
You buffer all my pains
I beat my head against your pillowed chest
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Don't go.....
The day is young
You've only just begun
To fly
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I have loved you like a lantern
Shinning in the night
When all the world was sleeping
And I alone was up
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When you sleep so soundly
I lie awake watching you
And I cannot remember
The night’s embraces
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This tongue of mine
Will stand for me
Wrapping round my heart
Like a monkey on a tree
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I cannot love you
like a summer storm
with the windows
wide open
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I drew a picture of U
but the nose was 2
big, the lips in love
like a girl’s
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