Tunnel of Love

Tunnel of Love


A long line of ticket-holders has been promised
that this part of an hour in the body will be better
and that the soul itself may rush back—whoosh!—
from the midways souls visit when they tire of us.
Carnival light falls on a blood-colored love boat,
the black pull-down bar, a laughing boy and girl.
Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love" is looped

soundtrack to being here against a mother's wishes:
"Fat man sittin' on a little stool"—he takes the money
from my hand while his eyes take a walk all over you.
Now they darken toward a door. The front of the boat
bumps the door to open it. He expected the ride to be
part of a lie the barker told to sell them pink tickets,
but then she leans to kiss him at the auroral edge

of the last of the light by the mechanical cupid.
Other boats glide by on the same trough of litter
and anonymous blue-black water linking entrance-
to exit-sign. The song roars its editorial, saying
how terrible it is for lovers to lose each other;
a warning they'll likely download from iTunes
when, later, alone, they've nothing better to do.


Copyright (c) 2009 Roy Bentley. All rights reserved.

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[tinySpectacle]

So many great lines in here--every time I read/listen to a poem of yours, I Iove art anew, I am reminded of what it can do.

I'm equally impressed with the fact that you remember the day you wrote this. I only remember things in chunks of time: a memory starts out at about a year ago, and when I know it's been longer than a year, it makes a sudden jump to five years, where it stays forever. Finally, the sum of most of my life has happened ten years ago, whether it likes it or not.

[twohawksfucking]

Thank you, Lo. And a compliment from you always resonates like a poem...

I adore getting them. You make me want to be (he coughs) a better man... lol

Roy

[rpVerlaine]

heard this on a mickey mouse computer in a hotel in costa rica while two maids were fighting. I've heard it before but it still works with the way revisting a favorite ride on the circus still does.

the best

rp

[twohawksfucking]

Thanks, rp. And for remembering it!

Roy

[dashpoet]

Great to find myself again inside your lines of poetry - cheers Roy!

[twohawksfucking]

Thanks, Mark. And thanks always for the reading you did sometime back of the EC poem. (I listen to that still and wrap my mind around the way a poem can be allowed to really rock!) Be on the lookout for a poem of mine DRC is doing called "Doc & Wyatt". I think you'll enjoy it.

Roy

[daveebella09]

need to be exposed of your some selected writings roy.....

[PoetLina]

"A long line of ticket holders has been promised/ that this part of an hour in the body will be better" : mindbending, that's poetry for you!

[dashpoet]

Always worth keeping an eye on DRC! Cheers Roy, you are very welcome.

[twohawksfucking]

Thanks, Marcel.