Surrealistic Acquaintance by Farrah Tate

Who's that elderly woman sitting there?
She's smoking too much too fast
She's mashing the cream in her cappuccino with too much
vengeance and haste
She sighs at the chaos and mess --
it's erupted and overflowed as a toxic waste
And she diverts her glance
too briefly to barely meet my cornered eye
And then she's again blowing and gulping too much too fast
Just fixated timelessly on her pain
I want to ask her what the turmoil is but
I'm watching the street-light too anxiously, too wearily
It's obviously not fixed by that temporary sugary and sweet caffeine mix
Who's the person beneath the nicotine tainted
Lifeless crow's feet stare,
as a prefix
to possible worse things to come:
more lonely hard time to be done.
Then the lights turn to grass and I'm thinking too much of home
and she's an eyelid flicker gone
I'll never know her perplexing wrong
because modern life is too hectic for cherish and care
Not enough clock reminder time to share
happiness and joy,
let alone the hardship that we bear --
the sadness that we might endure for too long, too alone
Mechanical haste that we half met at the wrong time
The momentary blending of the estranged yet strangely familiar
occupants of a dulled red light and rotted bus stop bench
To then disperse discompany again too soon
as a parted surrealistic cacophony of two;
leaving a misdirected me
embedded helplessly in our mind's too familiar womb.

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by Farrah Tate (Age: 31)
copyright 07-08-2001

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