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Dave Bonta
being a stranger
where most are strangers
body in a boat
among the dead I could be
a sorry stranger
but I consider providence
from the bottom of a clock
I am a stranger to the committee
against anything distasteful
an old hat left to lie
at the end of town
I believe in doubt
and seek to be content
Our pictures
do not please us
and so again
my acquaintance I made
and so I live
as long as a child
never playing
at home.
All night, no sleep:
a race between man and crow.
Crow beat me
and went home to play.
How busy a dance
I find it to be!
A great stranger is my mind.
I am loath to settle in it.
Be a stranger.
In the afternoon, who cons night?
Let my hen tell me
when the mess paid off.
Let be.
with my alphabet of commodities and Xs
a stranger in town
teach me some other
things to hate
A stone in a dish of peas,
I have come far.
Ladies look freely
up and down at me
and some walk
up and down the town,
which makes me think.
“Tell me, stranger,
what love should be called.”
The stranger preached the whole book
then went into court.
A drum came by, beating
a strange manner of beat—
now and then a single stroke.
I wondered at what I saw
but did not speak.
I dreamt about you
Funny thing is I can't remember your name
Or voice.
I don't know if we've crossed paths yet.
I don't know if we'll ever meet
But I do know this,
In my dream I was in love for the first time.
Today someone died
You might have known them
But maybe not
Anyone could have known them
But maybe no one at all
But for all we know they died
And they're gone forever
we've yet to be anything but strangers,
though you promise that will change.
and every time you say it,
i loose a little more faith.
we came so close, so how were we so far
from knowing that in the end we'd drift away with the currents, like every other day
maybe i have a thing for getting so close,
for loving someone who's incapable of loving me, for giving my all and getting nothing in return.
with that being said, it's all i know.
all i've ever known were,
empty promises, and lies.
it should be no surprise that i fall for these types of guys.
the ones who give you just enough attention to keep you attached.
and you fall for it.
telling yourself; it'll be different,