i believe that the cure for all our ills
is romance
i believe that the true belief
in impossibility is all that will
save us from mendacity
down the other roads we'll only be
an audience
half contented sitting in a studio, in a chair
on a couch substituting a studio
and be so engaged in the lives of others
we will not have started our own
though contrary to what i know
and only something i've
experience in half dreams
and fantasies
in poems that are prophecies
i believe in the dark gold lover
the chocolate and brandy lover
i believe there is someone not only
who will take me away, lift up this
body made heavy by years,
by small visions, by doughnuts and
cigarettes
and i believe that by that same power
i could lift him too
could lift you
out of this mendacity