Seductive simple phrases: Are you free?
You learn the direct and the polite, which is how you’ve always dreamed the seductive is.
The rest is chatter. Or filling out forms.
Where do you live?
A new language seduces you.
With her pronouns.
She approaches you mysteriously.
In that dress. By the mango grove.
People really speak that language. They sing that language in songs.
Why is it all your lovers have been bilingual?
The second language is the mother of romance and song.
Why didn’t you see it before?
She loved the new language, not you.
We are the language. Not ourselves.
Learning a new language is blunt and polite and mysterious all at once.
The promise of a kiss is only the promise of a newer, simpler language.
Simplicity is the seduction. What we call fate sometimes.
Life is simple after all. The genius of ease is all.
That is that. Speech. Translation. Love. That is that.
You are that and new in this new language.
That. That is new.
But noche is something you knew.
Try pushing your tongue forward a little sooner.
Seduction is limited to a few simple phrases;
After that, you are completely on your own,
And it will become very uncomfortable.
Enjoy it while you can. It really is the same old thing.
That is new. This is not.
Are you busy? Will you walk the streets of dark poetry with me?
Lesson number two. Are these your hands?
Lesson number three. How old are you? Can you give me money? Can you give me a home?
Lesson number fourteen. Here is the world. Here is heaven. They said we can do it.
Are you hungry?
No, my love. I am very, very tired.