“Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.”
– John Keats –
What the mermaid said...
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What The Mermaid Said...
~by Duncan Cary Palmer~"I wish that you were here," she said,
'twas my first subtle clue.
"You'll do great."
"You'll be just fine,"
my mind, she eased anew.
Oceans apart, her breathless words,
"We're seeing the same moon!"
Via fine technology,
We shared our favorite tunes.
"You're the most romantic man I know."
Exactly what she said.
"You're a frickin' genius!"
— her very words —
still echo in my head.
"In a heartbeat" was her answer
to my "Would you, too?"
More than once, she asked of me,
"Why can't you be with me?"
She then opined, "I wouldn't mind
at all, were you to see..."
"I want you. Do you want me?"
"How do you like this dress?"
"A motorcycle ride? How grand!"
To my "Please?" she said "Yes!"
"Mal?" she asked. I said "Inara?"
Wouldn't that be fun!
"I love it when you call me "Babe."
"You made me fall in love!"
On this one point,
she kept insisting:
"Can't you turn back time?"
"Why won't you make that happen?"
Memories, like wine...
Though très content
I'd live with crumbs,
she promised:
"The entire banquet shall be yours."
Then,
suddenly,
she said no more.
Suddenly, she said no more...
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