I'm watching a romantic play in Plato's cave; half the time… - Julia Alvarez

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I'm watching a romantic play
in Plato's cave; half the time I don't
believe in it...
Other times I'm so addicted I'm one of the mainliners...
hallucinating that in truth a man's
body is one of the Absolute Forms.
I look around when the houselights come on
and see no one!

Julia Alvarez

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Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist.

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threading her needles, winding her threads;
the spools sat in their rods in the sewing box,
ends tucked in the notch on the flat tops,
a palette of greens, laurel, mint, olive, aquamarine,
shorts, skirts, blouses, dresses, and nightgowns—
better than storebought.

My gay friends ask, Well are you gay or what?

But my house, though protected
with charms, can't block the spell mortality
has cast... I turn thirty-three.

I'm watching a romantic play in Plato's cave; half the time I don't believe in it... Other times I'm so addicted I'm one of the mainliners... halluci… - Julia Alvarez

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