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Order this writing in the Charlie Newman May 2010 cc&d poetry collection book “Deckard Kinder/ Charlie Newman” |
 
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doubletake
Charlie Newman
I want to take a trip
no
a voyage
I want to take a voyage
a long voyage
I want to go home
for a quick glimpse of infinity
a smack of recognition
an instant of insight
a new coat of paint inside my noggin
and I want to take you with me
somehow
I want you to see my dreams
of past ecstasies
of crumbling marble slabs
of tumbling second-rate circus acts
of bumbling borsht-belt boogie board bob-a-louies
of tossed off late night barb wire epics
that glow like fire flies
on Saturday Evening Post covers
by Norman Rockwell
and I want you to see them
through my eyes
s’il vous plait
I want to take you
away from the boredom
I want you to walk
where the dead talk
in tongues
and laugh out loud
and I want you to get the joke
(take my life...please)
and after we’re done
I want you to tell me
it was worth it
I want to read you
like the Bible, Baby,
and jot notes in your margins
I want to speed read you
while my finger traces your lines
and my radiant glass eyes
scan your colors
until I’m out of sight
and you’re out of words
I want to take you somewhere
over the rainbow
under the boardwalk
around the block
through Mr. Magoo
and beyond the blue horizon
I want to take you everywhere
nobody wants me to take you
I want you to see what I look like
with hands instead of fists
and feel my lips instead of teeth
and hear my sighs
instead of alibis
and I want you to be touched
by my sweet smell of success
I want you to take the easy way out with me
on the road to ruin
and I want you to coast with me
until the coast is clear
I want to take you
almost anywhere
there’s a corner
of this and that
I want to take you somewhere
where there’s no here
no there
no borders
no limits
no time
no date
and I want you to mark it on your calendar
