"Here's to Rilke, Kate, hot whiskey and O'Donovan's"
It may have been Siddhartha or The Road Less Travelled
something esoteric anyway
and Kate gave it to you on or after an esoteric night out
and you gave it to me years later
you probably forgot Kate's inscription
but I couldn't get past it
and revolved around the intense constellation
of you , Kate and Rilke
and even though it was before my time
that O'Donovan rendezvous
sharing her heart-speak like that
showed a certain carelessness
that I knew I could be doing without.
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I had to look up Rilke! An interesting love triangle - how do we feel about the women of our men's past?
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