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SHOW AND TELL

When I first saw you

I liked you You

didn’t come on the way

you thought you came on

My first impression of you was

you’re a person

who I’m really glad to know

who’s interested

in intellectual thoughts and true meanings of things

and I figured

since I was so glad to really get to know you

you’d be pretty glad to get to know me

and maybe I would touch your face with my hands

like I’m in the process of doing now

and look at you at arm’s distance

and then closer in

when and if it’s ok with you

and we could walk out of this room

arm-in-arm or shoulder-to-shoulder

just touching every other step or so

and go get a coke

or a pepsi and some grilled cheese

I really’d like a cheeseburger more

and talk about books and movies

and just exchange

if you’d want to do that with me

intellectual thoughts

and true meanings Just

about ourselves We would be able

to share and explore

all the little thoughts and feelings

that really can mess up the day

if things don’t go right

and all the quote irritations of modern living unquote

that Chekhov discussed so well

and then maybe we could learn to be friends

in this process of discovering

what makes each other tick

Pass me a cigaret

and pass me a cup of coffee Maybe

if we learn to really like one another

I’ll sit next to you the next session we have

and Bob and John and Alice and Kit

and you and me

will move our chairs a lot closer together

and really begin to understand

what really makes us tick in the mind

and straighten out our true meanings

We’ll call each other on the phone

write letters and postcards to each other

when we’re away for vacation

and write poems about what we do each day

and really all the love

even while a lot of loneliness exists in the world

and how we learn each other’s quirks

We’ll better cope with anything and anyone

that might come up and we might meet

and we’ll rent a farm

and start a commune

that probably won’t be as easy as starting a car

and we’ll skinny dip in the pond

take planes to Europe

help the disadvantaged and underdeveloped

make the world a better place to grow in

and when we get old

we’ll look back on all this

and know just know

just six of us had the power

to change the course of things

by learning to get along better

and it all started

with us sitting down

looking each other straight in the eye

and rapping