PARTIAL AND WHOLE
The girl sitting next to me
today smelled nice.
She smelled nice, but I
didn?t look up at her
or start a conversation
to see what she was really like.
And there was a woman
on the train with beautiful
hair until she turned her head.
That?s the thing.
There are lots of girls with
great smells, or hair that?s
beautiful at the right angle,
girls that write good poetry
or have wonderful elbows
or something.
There are even some girls
that I?d like to get
a really nice letter from someday.
But with Sarah,
I like every last all of her.
I want to be with her
and learn all her facial expressions
and I couldn?t be happy
if I only knew her smell.