Water for two was so much fun to write and greeted fairly positively by some of the other people on rap that we wrote a second effort. This one also resulted in a very nice review by another poster (resulting in Marek saying that it made him happy enough to levitate a small cow - I am not sure why, but it seemed apt at the time). It also led to a collaboration by the three of us on another topic - we decided we'd dabbled enough in water (as it were).
The below is published exactly as it was originally, again sans the original ASCII heading.
(c) 1990 Cathy Newberry.
(c) 1990 Marek Lugowski.
All Rights Reserved, except personal use copy.
water for two (part two)
it's my turn to start.
ok then,
try these drops
didn't you see them?
tiny dew diamonds
tinkling through the air
perhaps you prefer
beads of perspiration
or floating spray,
in your kayak of course.
we could get heavier.
dripping slush,
slow snow,
wet sludge.
(how phallic)
no, let's stay lighter, cathy.
how about that ephemeral spray
of your laughter
against the swaying low sun
australian or hoosier
it's the same one
our earthly water warmer.
these tiny droplets of warm dew
i have to be closer to you though
than the girth of the pacific
to to to
actually see 'em.
water, water in the wine.
water entwined in two living bodies.
water in life, your life. water in mine.
i touch your sense of funny. ...water.
tapping at plastic (not much water here)
and water answers, delicate water
charming, shimmering, toying
dangerous water
from across the big water, lashing
below.
i love thee, o warmth, o water nymph
and it's the flowing light-spotted water
who loves thee.
Cathy Newberry / Marek Lugowski
26 June 1990
Canberra, Australa / Lake Monroe, Indiana
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