X & Y (Summer 2009; Morazzone, Italy)

X attacked ferociously
but y had greater strength you see
and inspite of equality
his legs were long genetically
he kicked her in the history
and as it turned most tragically
the baby of them both was carried out in less time than the time prescribed

and all these things aside
neither one asked why

(y) moved to the city
to lament the loss of baby
in a haze of desktop daydreams
and arrays of neutral colour schemes
the days became excessive
and he'd think about it less if
he could focus his attention on the action of life as it passed him by,

and all these things aside
he never once asked why

(y)'s now estranged lover
learned to hate the role of mother
moving to a town more southern
than the one her grief had governed
now she spends time in the garden
walking circles round the yard and
on the colder days she thinks about her separé thinks under the same sky,

and all these things aside,
we call them x and y.