it’s white not black
and cold not hot
whatever you say
i say it’s not

you mustn’t do that
why’s this not done?
that’s the wrong way
this is the one

we could go here
or we could move there
i want you with me
ag i don’t really care

you want to do what?
you’ve no ambition
i’ll go with you anywhere
but there’s one more condition

if only you’d follow me
blindly, and share
my contrary ideas,
plan b, and the spare

that’s brilliant! that’s awful,
what were you thinking
i’m with you 100%
wait, that’s shrinking

we’ll never agree
we don’t speak the same language
i speak Venutian
you talk Marsanguage

i am anadromous
you are an octopus

we’ve lasted this long and for that I am grateful
let’s let it go now before we get hateful

09/01/2010

Author's Note: First printed in "Patchwork Moon" - anthology of poems by Vivienne J Grant & Kimberly F McNamara

Posted on 02/01/2012
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