faded blue mountains
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		so what is it about
		the faded blue mountains
		silhouetting the horizon
		that stirs excitement longing and lonesomeness?

		so why does their shape
		so unlike and yet evocative of
		women's breasts and bellies
		bring on attraction sweet tangy regret?

		the faded blue mountains
		rise from the prairie
		the faded blue mountains
		lock in your eye
		the faded blue mountains
		put a fence to all shimmer
		the faded blue mountains
		promise the wet
		the faded blue mountains
		are always auxiliary
		the faded blue mountains
		can never be had

		like distant women's breasts and bellies
		on close approach
		the faded blue mountains
		resolve to detail texture and hue
		
		by the time you get to the faded blue mountains
		they just are not
		faded and blue


			Marek Lugowski
			18 July 1999
			Chicago, Illinois and Montana