"I really should go back to Barber School..."
-- Doug Sahm (1969)
Didn't feel your gaze
as fractious security door
or like an iron balcony
till nightime penthouse
was an open moment
rain steadily changing
clothes trying to fly
just fifty meters away
a felicitous cigarette
because of watching you
putting telescope down
at an open window
smoking a cigarette too
and looking at the rain
was falling between us —
later leave the party
almost leave umbrella
say to a passing friend
clearly is hard the getting in
but why so hard the getting out.