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So Beautiful So beautiful that couple in handsome black and red clothes walking along the street her arms folded, his in pockets cold... Scarves loosely wrapped about white necks, And in the subway car a black man takes a black woman's hands, and her eyes look far away beyond the walls under the sea, and his eyes concentrate on her hands as glasses drop slightly down his nose as she turns and smiles, as he looks up at clay made whole, and she takes her hands about his cheeks makes a vase, and he smiles as roses are put in his mouth and hair, and her brown leather coat crumples as she kisses him, and his black windbreaker is crumpled by her kiss, And for two subway stops their kiss moves a man to write and get up in the morning and sing an old song to remember a woman in a dream who held his hands wearing ear rings of white moons, in black hair open as a fan, blowing honeyed wind about the room in which they loved and loved, as kingdoms came and went, in which they loved and loved as the black man and woman left their embrace to slowly get up to the door by an old man in the window seat into whose hands dropped two white moons. | |
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