Story of a Bear

 To go the extra mile wearing spectacles with cleansed visions of tomorrows and of Johanna clean and clear

For the night is a swimming pool filled with coffee in which I swim with the moon and an inflated tiger that refuses to sink

Fear is a cloudy kite that flies and floats over our heads reflecting our states of mind in three dimensions of solid, liquid, and gas

On a night with dreams of hunting vultures and complex numbers listening to old tunes where young men and women long to be in the arms of each other

And the other song is sung to the tune of silver moonlight that floods the rooms of lonely lovers with windows hiding behind or on the other side of thin blue veils curtains

Their songs are sung with mandolins of eight strings each – eight, eight, eight upright infinities and the number of prime numbers unknown like the intentions of lovers

Who make promises in desert mirages and mirror images of desert sands and camels that are the ships of the desert that however promise not to sink when they brush against icebergs of the desert sand dunes oh the seas of sand

But the promises of lovers who leave refuse to leave the wind – or should one call it the breeze of the desert – as they move from left to right and then from the west to the east moving against sunlight but with the shadows

Shadows of long coats have arms that are longer than the arms of the law flaw claw blah, blah, blah – country singers have sung more and much more about that

But what made a lover leave their lover with four hundred children when listened to for the first time later corrected by someone else that the children are just hungry – four hungry children – and it is impossible to remember the capital of Hungary when you wake up from a dream in the middle of the night on a steel cot whose skin is cold like that of a lizard that wears the skin of a lion or a lizard falling into a tin of blue paint running amok through forests claiming to be the kin of every animal in the forest till it rains

New letters of new lovers pretend to be something else – like sheets of a calendar that measure the passing of many a birthday, wedding anniversaries, festivals, annual days of remembrance and pages of newspapers are filled with little boxes paid for by the square inches – announcements, obituaries, words, words, words, wanted salespersons! Apply here, here and here – there – post box numbers, prime numbers, seventeen or thirty-one ah well just another evening of a bluesy Sunday when the sun has set once upon a long time ago listening to the story of a bear that did not mind being a bear that once went on a long walk seeing a lion the way behind the rustling of a shrub or should one call it a bush I wonder what you would have called it had you been there – I wonder what you would say had you been here and I wonder where you are now, I wonder what you would have said to me had you been there and the bear runs home but the lion takes a shortcut and reaches home even before the bear does and the bear opens the door to see the lion that the bear thinks is another lion and so as the story goes in past tense, the bear ran to its friend’s house and stayed there for five hours till it felt safe before coming home and oh what joy to find a home sweet home so safe and clean – ideally there should be an exclamation mark here but everything is ok on a day like this – or should it be anything is ok – should there be a question mark here – but they everything and anything goes so, so