Maybe

The Maybe Challenge--Almost Dead Poets Society

 

If you come here / you might fall in love

 

 

with Michigan

 

you might want to spend a summer / here

You might want to study Philosophy / here

You might want to make this / your home base

between your many future travels

 

Maybe / maybe not

 

You might stay here / but

not stay with me

because, there are many beautiful girls here / maybe not

 

I worry that you might not like me

I feel self-conscious in ways I have rarely felt / or

ever cared about

I worry that my damn age could become an obstacle / maybe not

 

Mary says, “Are you kidding me Colette? 

He’s going to like you more when he sees you in person!”

 

 

Maybe

 

 

Maybe / we will ride to Lake Michigan with you on the back of my Kymco

Maybe / we will dance all night / Maybe

Maybe / we will swing from trees!

Maybe / we will make love in the shower / hold each other / between the sheets

 

Maybe / we will fit like a puzzle / piece by piece

 

Maybe / you will dig my poetry

Maybe you will be in the audience smiling / cheering me on

 

Maybe

 

Maybe / life will fall into place for both of us

Maybe / we’ll get that RV and cruise the United States!

Maybe / we’ll make it to the Penis Festival in Japan / the Louvre in France

the pyramids in Egypt / Italy / London...so I can photograph all the funky street fashions!

 

Maybe / we’ll get to Alaska / watch Polar Bears play fight in Canada / do some EarthWatch trips together

 

Maybe/ you’ll make it back to Africa

 

with me

 

 

 

Maybe