A Body as White as Snow©
Sat on the porch all day that day
chain smoking and
feeling soory for ourselves
and the sky was grey
and Sydney was depressed
"This day is cold and bitter
just like life is cold and bitter"
the chairs were forming to our asses
Sydney was getting restless
"Let's go for a walk"
and I noticed he wasn't wearing any shoes
or a shirt
and his pants had fallen to his hips
a dove peering over the black denim
"I'm going for a walk,"
he nudged my chair
"Are you getting dressed first?"
"Why?"
I shrugged
watched him shove his feet into boots
Roman's boots, sitting on the steps
And, without lacing the fourteen eyelets,
took off down the street
walking too fast for me to keep up
three blocks, four blocks
a mile, a mile and a half
to the empty parking lot
and I had to run to keep up
he got to the snow-filled parking lot
kicked off Roman's boots
ripped off his pants
and he wasn't wearing any underwear that day
so I watched him
rolling naked in the snow
his body nearly as white
he began to giggle when I said
"You're going to get arrested,"
he began to turn blue and said
"I'm cold and bitter,
just like life."
And so I walked back to the Pluto House
without my crazy Sydney.
