AS-A Delighful Substitute

A Delightful Substitute

With the walls lined with photographs of the past
My house looks like a restaurant
There memories come to dine

Shots taken at family meetings
Relatives smiling with greetings
My fat uncle liquor drinking
My crying mother at my brother’s wedding
My father always missing

I squint hard at the photos
I discover once more
How much my sister looks like Marilyn Monroe
I look like Liz Taylor

Let’s launch into love stories
Equal to those of movie queens

Now one can see my eyes riverting
To the mushy look that love drunks have
Happiness sadness are all bursting inside them

My German lover’s eyes glare into mine
I have the power to manipulate his emotions
We’re running to each other in slow motion
But an evil power strikes my Arnold Schwarz
With an hideous locomotion
He dies of an instant attack
Then and there my heart cracks

I want to draw the film backwards
Blossomed anew every night
My passions give me delight
Who cares if Arnold is dead
Robert can substitute him instead

With the lush dance music without a break
It’s delightful to wrestle with them both
Once Arnold once Robert on top
Seduced by sneaky tectonic tunes

Each night I let them slip out of images of fumes
To enjoy the amorous movies on the walls
Like the odd figures of Andy Warhol
We poke our heads into the night

Shining with sweat
With that thread
When the night gets old
All three of us get cold
With exhaustion
No decent movie ever showed...

Ayten Suvak