Love Poem: Sabrina's Solar Plexus
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Written by: Carl Halling

Sabrina's Solar Plexus

"You were frightening, sinister,
You put everything into it
I took a step back
You get better every time
How good can you get?"
                                                                    
People are scared of fish eyes
They confuse, stun, fascinate
Coldly indifferent 
Fish eyes
Sucked dry of life fish eyes...
                                                                    
Sabrina was unselfish, 
Unselfconscious,
Devoted, unabashed, 
Spontaneous,
A purring lioness:
"Yes," she said, 
"I can imagine people
Wanting to possess you."
                                                                    
People are scared of fish eyes;
They confuse, stun, fascinate;
Coldly indifferent 
Fish eyes;
Sucked dry of life fish eyes...
                                                                    
Sabrina said: "I'm sorry;
I'm just possessive
I'm frightened of my feelings
You'll miss me a little,
Won't you?
You should read Lenz.
I'm sure you'd 
Identify
With the main character."
                                                                    
People are scared of fish eyes;
They confuse, stun, fascinate;
Coldly indifferent 
Fish eyes;
Sucked dry of life fish eyes.
                                                                    
Have I written about the 
Crack-up?
When I came home
Empty-handed
And I just couldn't 
Articulate
For latent tears.
But am I so repelled
By intimacy?
When will someone 
Get me there (the solar 
Plexus) as Sabrina said.

People are scared of fish eyes;
They confuse, stun, fascinate;
Coldly indifferent 
Fish eyes;
Sucked dry of life fish eyes.

(Thanks to the large quantity of notes I committed to paper while at college in London, my beloved college can live again through sundry writings forged out of them, such as the above, in which all names have been changed.)