Tuesday 4 June 2013

The Proposal

Let us dance to Sinatra, let us run into a rose garden, kiss my wrist and tell me you pine for me.

Let's watch a silent movie in black and white.

Let's live in black and white. Let us be amazed at automobiles, and wave goodbye to relatives from the deck of a ship,

en route to Europe.

Let's stand at the helm of a ship and play Titanic. Ill be Rose. Draw me. Let me kiss you in a car. Let's steam up some windows. Let's sing. Let's waltz. Let's sit under moonlight and talk about ourselves.   

Let's live in Nazi germany. Let us be Jews, and try to escape with the family jewels. Let's pledge undying love as we drown in the Danube.
There's child next to me I wish we could keep. I could hold his hand.

You hold mine.

Let us waltz to Strauss. Let us love to Mozart. Let's dine to Verdi. Let's watch coronations and abdications, let us fall in love with Victoria, and Elizabeth;
"Isn't Her Majesty just delightful" "Yes, and so young, too, I think she's doing terrific" 

Let us watch operas and concerts from halls. Let us be thrilled by the happenings in america, in the colonies.

Lets us debate who should be free, and who should be slave.

Let me fall in love with you on the Seine. Row a barge under a bridge, stop and kiss me. Be aroused by my ankles and my hands.

Be my beau. Come calling at my doorstep, let's walk out together. Throw pebbles at my window and serenade me.

Love me in ruffles and lace and corsets and bonnets. Let us take a ride through central park without a chaperone.

Ive always had a wicked streak.

Go off to war. Let me love you in absentia. Let me send you scented handkerchiefs and long love letters. Let me cry myself to sleep for worry of your safety. Let me stand at the doorstep and look down the street with yearning. Let me scan the newspapers anxiously, give me the chance to sigh with relief when i don't see your name.

Let us wear Levis and have big hair. Grow a ponytail. Il keep a bouffant. I don't care, it'll be the swinging seventies and eighties and we'll run off and live in a hippie settlement. Let's be nudists. Let's have meth trips, let's get drunk and sober and drunk again. Let's dance in the rain.

Let's love wildly. I'll get a job. I'll be a feminist. Be a chauvinist. Be amused. Be impressed. I don't care. Just love me.

Let's get married. Start a family. Raise a coupla hell raising kids. I've always wanted a mozart. Lets name our kids amadeus and thaddeus and bobby. And laugh at them all their lives. Lets make the world our sockball. Let me love you in ages. And ages. And ages.

Die before me. I want to mourn you. Mourn me. Let's wear black. Lets love six feet under. We could be buried together.

Tell me your name. I want to fall in love with you right now. And over and over again.