Raffi Wartanian: Eye Contact

Eye contact

Our eyes
Contacting
Each Other


They’re making out
They’re licking each other’s tongues
They’re making love like rabbits on the branchy forest earth

And we’re watching
The Eye Contact
With our other eyes.

Eye Contact
Is part of how we communicate
            Effectively
To make the point that:
- After you
or
- I want the last French frie
or
- It was a pleasure to meet you
or
- I loved you in a past life
or
- I need more time
or
- I don’t think I love you anymore
or
- I just can’t give you the answers you need
or
- I’m not who you think I am
or
- I can’t be who you want me to be
or
- I would destroy you
or
- I don’t know why I’m pushing you away, but I feel that I must
or
- You just weren’t good enough. You weren’t a man
or
- Remember all those times I told you I loved you and enthralled you with stories of our shared future and transcendental past? Those are just memories now
or
- Gravity dampens by small shocks of light.
or
- Your face is an enlarged cockroach defacating on itself as its’ shit sings – in castratti falsettos – arias by a 17th century German composer named Mikel Shpiel whose name may or may not have been invented just this moment and might induce among the .000001% of this poem’s tiny readership to potentially consider investigation if this Shpiel character actually exists


In conclusion,
Eye Contact
Would not be as effective
If everybody
Always made
Eye Contact.






By Raffi Wartanian
4/2010 NYC