EYES IN THE DARK

by ZAKALIN NEZIC

Chapbook ISBN: 0-9707059-4-8 5.25" x 8.25" 52 pp. $8.00

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>From the title selection... ...Leaning tall against the corridor You gaze through the crowd of smoke That wraps us in this tangle of confusion You with your Elvis hair I with the Mona Lisa smile Both hiding behind the lies we play A drama of identities passing in the night Appearing, then disappearing in a flash But even in those fantasy nights Your eyes looked back at me... Wine and slivovitz smooth the edges Of the shards all around us Playing house like make believe 'Tho you know it can never last You never saw me at my best so how is this? Cleanliness is next to godliness, so they say Can this ever make up for the past? Who cares? Borrowed flat, borrowed clothes, borrowed bed As I look down at you on that hot night Your eyes looked back at me It wasn't a dream, our glasses were found Why is life so shitty, full of politics and hate Don't ask me questions, let me smother myself in misery Let me keep my private passion Hands across my eyes, another day in a steamy car Dreaming of a night at the Metropol, my heart pounds Relentless rain, dark hair stuck against his cheeks with tears His face mournful through the condensation of the train window Its image engraved in me that rainy night As his eyes looked back at me

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