By chris
Date: 2010 Nov 11
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Strangers in Paradise

I guess
it was
one of our many soundtrack
moments -
taking the off-ramp to
98th Street
at roughly 89
(and on more
or less
four
wheels),
me thinking, FUCK,
you're fine -
brown hair blowing out
like silk threads
too fine
to count,
our bright,
damned
city spread
wide
in
the white summer heat
to all
corners
of the horizon,
The Ventures
playing
some classical theme
at maximum volume
as we kissed with
minimum subtlety
and you
imagined
out loud
that we were like
some version of Starsky &
Hutch, and I
said hey babe, it's
just US,
but still I thought yeah,
wouldn't it be nice,
temporarily lost
as we were
in some
Brian Wilson Heaven
(would it last?) -
more than a mile above sea
level and
falling
fast.