To My Esmerelda

love?
Love is ordinary like water.

Like water, love can save,
or it can sink, a man, a
woman,
or both together at
the same time


There are reasons, obviously, for the historicity of water
First, we cannot go without it—                     
unless you want to          
thirst,
and soon thereafter die.          
(all-things-living on Earth require water—          
for without it they too will grow thirsty,          
and they also will also die.)
                                         
                                      —And so if you want to live, 
                                                          you drink water.


—and do you drink water?
or are you thirsty.
Do you have enough water in your life, where you live and breathe and die?
Or do you live in in a bad place,
Where there is no water          
(the cliché being the desert of course—….you know—)





now look please: If a man lives in the desert, he has to learn
how to acquire and amass as much water
As he can—
…opportunistically,
cunningly…
and most Resolvedly.

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—do you drink water?
take baths and showers and swim in the lake
by your house by the field?
Or do you live and die in a poor country somewhere where
there is no clean water to drink. (Like one billion right now.)

        water, after all, can become infected.
H2O turns poisonous
When neglected by those
who
disregard it and take it
for granted.

—love also must be managed with
care, and with concern—
Like Water
If misused and abused
for long
love, also, can grow
foul
and filthy
And so kill a man, or a woman, or
the
and our
entire species,
even.

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Without love why drink water?
Is not one as essential as the other
For the well-being of the body and the mind?


I share my water with you.
Will you drink?
Please do drink.

(I will, if there is enough for myself as
well, and if the water is
pure, as I believe you are, but I do not know
if you are true.
Are you—)
You are my water, and I am yours.
I am your water, and you are mine.
Please get thirsty and come to me
soon

(But do not allow yourself to get so thirsty that
you, like
me
will come to
die.  thank you—)


(Oh...“I’m as clean as a cold mountain spring          
hot as a natural bath. Am I not
thirst-quenching enough…”
  “(for you I mean?)”)

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