Another Doctor’s Love

February 8, 2012 by Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

I sit again in my beloved shop of coffee

At 6 in another of God’s lonesome Sunday mornings—

Thinking on yellow lines of cocaine—

And there is the aspect

Of another woman before me.

Yesterday, I saw a girl misty,

Not obese like the others,

And now there is a new, fine, pleasant temptress—

A geisha from Saturn—

Before my green eyes, which have cried.

The psychology of men is simple, exquisitely pitiful,

And my fantasy is simple and exquisitely pitiful too.

I was civilized when I lived on Pluto,

But now I am conquered and consumed.

I am consumed as bad as Dr. Strangelove.

About Tim Ruane

Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.