[ stealing teal ]
stealing teal is hard,
you know,
it slips through your fingers
like wet water
and runs down your wrists
until your sleeves
are buttered blue
it leaps out of your pockets
and drives away
in a '57 Chevy
before you can even
ask for it's phone number
no amount of
lifting, looting, pilfering, pillaging, pinching, pirating, plundering, poaching, purloining, or swiping
could ever remove
even
one
iota
of teal
from the shattered shutters
and silk dresses
of your heart
perhaps,
it cannot even be bought or sold
teal is something special
something sacred
teal
can only be given. |
