THE LEOPARD AND THE GOAT

to let you know

that i think you are perfect

i call you up late one night

when i know you are sleeping

and talk at length

about your imperfections

as i listen to you listen

as i talk

i know

how glad you must be right now

that we never have to pretend differently

again

that your faults and your inability

of pertaining static properties

is really the root

of us

ever changing into someone

we will not be afraid to lose

into someone we never have to be again

as i listen to you listen

as i accentuate the force

of our agreeable non-agreement

by telling parables of how a bicycle

can never retain the same wheels once

they are changed

or how a government can never reconstitute

the vigor of the ideas it was originally founded upon

once it is in decline

you decide to prove your love to me

some 5-10 minutes ago

by having already

quietly hung up the phone