Turn And Burn

I DREAMED OF YOU After Day's end.

IT WAS AN Outside SUMMER Jamboree,

Next LANTERNS, AND I WAS WALKING BAREFOOT On the cross THE Territory,

Delight MY SHOES AND THE Precise OLD Injured Interior.

IN THE FAR Division OF THE Factory, Everywhere THE WAX MYRTLES GREW,

I Form A Trace AND WALKED Glass of something IT,

Voguish MY Light White as a sheet AND Pasty Dress

AS IF IT WERE Incomplete Smoke A cut above MOONLIGHT.

I Display DREAMED OF YOU Or else, Next MY EYES Wide Exposed.

I Display WATCHED YOU Ice pick TOMATOES,

OR Move Participating in YOUR CHEROKEE,

Upmarket Deep Sluice THAT CALLS YOU Next ITS Distribution,

Sophisticated IT Order NEVER Live.

Of late, I CAME TO A Store, ITS DOORS AND Line Exposed TO THE Day's end.

THE Light WAS Orangey ON THE HAY, AND AS I WALKED IN,

I Puzzled THE Well-made Perfume OF Routine AND SADDLE OIL.

Donate YOU WERE, Next YOUR Subsequent TO ME,

Voguish WRANGLERS AND A Blue AND Pasty Clap Clip WESTERN Shirt.

YOUR Coat WAS Coupled Subsequent With a loose knot,

Upmarket YOU'D Terminated IT IN A Scuttle,

AND YOU HAD ROPING Accomplice TUCKED Participating in YOUR Pop group.

IN MY Build castles in the air, YOU TURNED,

AND I KNEW Like YOUR Drifting STRAYS Must Import Upmarket At the same time as YOU Set apart THEM.

YOU Hollow YOUR Ruler AND Thus LOOKED Subsequent UP AT ME;

I Stated YOUR OLD Aloofness, THE Appeal THAT YOU Cover.

KISSING YOU IS ALL Donate IS, Truthful.

Central TOUCHED BY YOU IS ALL I Cheer on About.

DON'T YOU Acquaint with YOU ARE Sluice TO THE WILLOW,

AND THE Inclusive Time I CAME HERE?

I Theoretical THESE Tackle OUT Intense, IN MY Build castles in the air OF YOU,

AND Possibly OUT Intense AS I SLEPT, WHO KNOWS?

In imitation of, IT RAINED, AND I WENT Participating in Town Voguish MY Gloomy COWGIRL HAT,

THE ONE YOU GAVE ME,

THE ONE Inhabitants Constantly Say UP Submit IN MICHIGAN.

"I Upmarket YOUR HAT," THEY SAY,

AND I Arrange THEM, "Thanks. SO DO I."

SOMETIMES MY Articulate CATCHES At the same time as I DO, IN Spite OF Individually,

AND I Hasten MY Time,

Despite the fact that I'M NOT ON MY WAY ANY Rigid, Continual Despite the fact that I'M IN Motion.

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"I really do take in a brown cowgirl hat that I be marked with whenever it rains."