Karin Holloway

A cat is a cat

A cat on the lap
Is a cat in the house
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I don't want to be serviced
I want to be loved
Not for what I do
nor what I make
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Something about you keeps me awake
the stars are in bed tucked into my head
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A bud, becoming, blossoming
In dew, adieu to you.
Sweetly drawn, I drew
The same diagram.
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Turbulent mind
Choosing arms & legs
stems & forks
to be there -
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As you unsheathe it.
Trembling pleasurably
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Fear of heights
spiders
dark
Nightmares of
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I nearly forgot my life
as I shared it with you.
Tender moments cause amnesia -
in their wake I loll
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He comes in and goes out of my life
Slipping silently in sperm, so silently.
He is hesitant, my torturer who teases
With time slipping silently in and out.
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This is a large chair, room for two
But all this world hurries past
So many different yet all the same
Their worlds alone, they're worlds
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I'd like to remember last night when I'm very old
And tired. I might feel hard then, and colder.
What we shared last night was beautiful because
we shared.
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We live in two different worlds
too far between
to be of
And all the countless lullabies
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Dear Faust,
I understand; dear God
I am under
standing
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Your gods are strange to me.
You give yourself completely
And I wonder why I can't, too,
as you -
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The soul's boomerangs
slicing into self
shaving contours
creating consciousness by
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See you in Spring swing
me round to town
Let's have some gin.
No sin
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It is a wonder and a blessing
the harpoon hole ripped gaping
an empty spot
shining amidst the rubble
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