When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful...

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I found where my copy of Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows got to, yippie! I must buy a bigger copy, this one's way too easy to lose. In celebration...

COMFORT

If we could do it all again
motor bike through roman cities
in the rain
watch the cats chase lizards in the forum
and drink bad wine from mouth to mouth
I probably would try
to love you harder than I did
I probably would smile a smile
much better than the ones you knew
for I was just rehearsing then
imagining what easily might happen
in years to come

it is not just you I love
(or even Roman rain)
or all the times you rattled on my window
after twelve o'clock.

I love the smell of rooms-
where you have been
the foreign touch of things I never knew
until you came along.

I even love your enemies
becaue they drive you to my arms
for comfort.-Rod McKuen