James Tate's Return to the City of White Donkeys Poem

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white walls crept up around me as I slept in the darkness of my room

He was in my dreams again. I wish he would stop haunting me. This time he appeared with a camera, which he held in front of his face first, then mine, and with the click of a button we were there, framed together.

I did not like the effect. I would rather have him here with me in bed. In my bed. The one with the satin sheets and warm colors that mirror my heart's sentiments for a man I have never met.

He has power over me in my dreams. I like it, sometimes, but sometimes I cannot breathe like the way I feel when I see the white walls.

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They are bare, blank, empty, but not quite raw because they are still new. I would prefer they stayed new, which is why there is nothing on them yet. No artwork I have seen deserves to make holes there, in the wall. All I can think about here, now, is he who haunts my dreams and punches a hole in my heart where before

I was free. Damn him, I am trapped here in my satin sheets with no one but a pug at my feet. He is so cute, the pug at my feet.

He is my friend in flesh and blood, but when the phone vibrates,

I stop petting the pug to pick up the phone, and all there is a friend….....

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