I Remember You Too Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Kelly kissed my neck today just like
Erin did ten years ago-
While I was done buying books and heading home;
And now I want to buy something else too:
I want to buy a home,
I want to throw a baseball game; I want to settle down like
A fur coated animal fully infatuated with the zoo
Who on his Sundays is let out to look
Out at the waves;
And I want to hold Kelly’s hand and look out at all of her
Trapped sisters and ask her where
Her mother lives; and ask her too her middle name,
Because I cant remember:
She told it to me today and we went to the park,
Just like the virgin went to her grotto;
And the little black slaves danced, and the apartments bloomed:
The pirates were laughing in their trances;
Their gold the filigree around the screen at the movie theatre;
And I will die and I will dance,
And girls who I have loved will dance before me,
But now I have nothing at all to prove, or if I do then it is
Only something I cant remember;
But I remember holding up my hands inside the butterfly house
At the zoo;
And I remember today you kissing my neck-
And I remember you too.