Magenta Afternoon
Aidan Wirshing
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Hourglass woman tilted sideways lying on her bed Time is standing still it's standing right on its head I'm fixated watching the shadows run up and down her thighs Counting the grains of blue sand that slip from her eyes She stirs and says, "I like those sad songs you sing Won't you play, for me, another tune?" So I pick up my guitar and play for her "Magenta Afternoon" Baby blue balloon tangled up in a tree Bumps and bruises a scrape on my knee No matter how high I climb that balloon is always out of reach of me Back then it was all a song of innocence And in a sense, it was always sunrise Every day a chance to wipe the sadness and the dreams from my eyes Bluebird out my window says it's Saturday morning Race downstairs to be the first to watch cartoons That was before I got swept up in magenta afternoons I am old, living in a dirty smoker's house The yellow wallpaper eroding all around Listening to my train of thought wondering where it's bound Outside the topaz sun is setting, silencing the golden tongues Of the meadowlarks I feel the hot air burning in my lungs but it's growing dark Ozymandias beckons with his hand He says, "Join me in my desert kingdom Never again will you fear a handful of dust And we'll watch the world turn to rust" So I guess It's time for me to disappear with him behind a sand dune And try to remember what life was like in a magenta afternoon Hourglass woman now that the song is done You're sitting straight up on your bed and the sand is moving in you again I'm thinking, what good is another deflowered muse To a poet whose life contains multitudes So you see I've got to go, can't let the well run dry Even if it means I'll make the same mistakes, I still have to try I'm happily living in a Yeatsian gyre Hoping it'll never expire Chasing perfume and prose Wrapping up the fire hose Watching the flames grow higher So I pack up my guitar and leave you in this darkening room I'm off to find a new life in a magenta afternoon
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