Adam Fieled (Logan Square, Philadelphia, USA): "Run Away with Me"

I was thinking as I listened to her
   about Byron’s relentless nihilism
that only found out in intoxication
   any kind of remedy for the things
she was telling me about— abortions,
   abortive affairs, and how no I won’t go
home with you and how Byron
   alone among the Romantics dealt
overtly with sex not just love like
  Shelley or fantasy like Keats or
like Wordsworth the dull sheep

(of course Blake did too, gratified )

and all the blokes in the bar were
   staring at green eyes red hair
bust you know the kind that blokes
   will stare at and I thought Byron
really caught something a seed
   a kernel of what Nietzsche ran away
with I said please run away with
    me and she laughed looked down
into her beer and was finished

© Adam Fieled 2009

originally published in Otoliths 13