Interior Decoration

 

The freedom to be careless,
the privilege of disorder;
a right to be unlikable,
a prerogative of odor.

Let me practice husbandry
of the animal magnetism
that attracts irritation,
my wife a mood of misery.

This is neither defiance
nor pure aggression, but
the definition of utopias—
the one me, one you.

Freedom’s not absolute
I know, responsibility’s
a given e’en to the laity.
I know, also, cultures

collide in homes, offices,
couples, seats of buses,
and patience is doubtless
the enemy within.

Let me therefore express
my right to paint yellow
a room reserved for red,
anger is presently dead.

That’s my belief and sight,
not to spite anyone
but the life celebration
I seek, end of each week.

Togetherness, I presume,
is internally dictated
by yin and yang codes . . .
of beauty, of a beast.

 

 

---11/04/01

 

 

 

 

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