So good to whirl a dervish

by judih.

Posted to Action Poetry on 2004-01-17 19:43:00

Parent message is 584037
So good to sip coffee in the square
Detective joining, paying
eyeing your jeans
he wants the label
-(don’t worry), don’t sweat
he wants the dope
(yeah, yours) and mine

So good to walk the watermelon market
and pass out under impossible heat
So good to faint by the fishermen
The smell of Istanbul
a cruel taunt under the bridge

So good to whirl a dervish
Dream of a monastery
Santa Sofia and carpets
made of banter and fraud

So good to walk the queasy garlic road
in a language left unsaid
“How far is my hotel?”
So good to find a clean white bed

So good to know we’re still not dead


judih