Lovers: Poetry and Other Writing

By Daniel Fairclough

Lovers is really a matter of me exploring and finding romantic love and sex with multiple partners and also the ideas of love that come from friendship.

With this book “Lovers” coming to a close I suppose a new “Frustrations” would be about my health, my love life, chasing the American Dream with or without the Nuclear Family model and all the things I’ve seemed to miss in pursuit of my passions. Regardless, the next book I think, today I thought at least, would be titled “Worries” instead of “Frustrations 2: Electric Boogaloo” (That’s a joke, but I would title it that.) That being said I hope you enjoyed this book as much as I enjoyed writing it in days and years past, and who knows what the future will bring.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664173125

Daniel Fairclough

Daniel Fairclough is an artist from Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA that arew up raised by his single mother alongside his two brothers Jason and later his adopted brother Joshua. Daniel dabbles in many forms of art, such as illustration, painting, making music alongside his writing, but he often dreams of living an easy life with someone that loves him where he can play video games all day and night.

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Rev. date: 05/06/2021

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CONTENTS

Preface/Preamble/Proem/Overture/Prologue/Front Matter

CHAPTER 1

Reminisce

CHAPTER 2

Poem 4

Speaker Phone

Last Night

Fair Warning

CHAPTER 3

Mornings without You

CHAPTER 4

Oasis

CHAPTER 5

Email

Social Media

Pisces

Death

CHAPTER 6

Untitled

CHAPTER 7

Mysteries of the Deep

Goodbye Forever

CHAPTER 8

Bluebird

New Year’s (2014)

CHAPTER 9

A Letter

CHAPTER 10

Time Travel

Peeking

Dead Eyes

CHAPTER 11

Goldilocks

The Ballroom

Wandering Eye

CHAPTER 12

Snow

CHAPTER 13

Nosferatu

Hello

CHAPTER 14

Insomnia

Valentine

Cold Cuts

Candy

His and Hers

The Big O

Heart-Shaped Mask

Tune

Smoke

Divine Intervention

Poem 58

Poem 34

Poem 36

Laser Deer

Seventeen

TV

My Perfect Valentine

Word Search

Freak

Cheerleader

Bride-to-Be

At the Coffee Shop of Broken Hearts

Three Dryads

Primordial Ooze

PREFACE/PREAMBLE/PROEM/OVERTURE/

PROLOGUE/FRONT MATTER

This is the preface/preamble/proem/prologue/front matter for this book of poetry and illustrations, Lovers.

This is another book of all older poems that I have collected. I put some poems that could be in this book in my first book of poetry, Frustrations, so I decided it would be better to include some other poems from the early 2000s to 2010s. Currently I am writing this preface/preamble/proem/overture/prologue/front matter in 2019, but I don’t have any idea when this book or its illustrations will be finished.

Lovers is really a matter of me exploring and finding romantic love and sex with multiple partners and also the ideas of love that come from friendship.

Moving on, I used to—when I broke up with the girl, my ex, the woman my first book was dedicated to—I used to write poetry for women I’d see on the train and give it to them, eager or lustful or desperate to find someone else, something else, and fill a void that had been left in my heart that I wanted to understand was love.

This book isn’t like a detailed romp through my sexuality or sexual history; it’s more like observations and ideas about the people I’ve encountered on my journey of the heart.

So without further ado, I present to you, my Lovers.

PS

Recounting or rereading these poems I’ve written in ages past, I realize I’ve forgotten whom many of them are about, if they are about anyone at all. Certain chapters refer to certain people; however, many of the poems in the Miscellaneous chapter may, in fact, be about people or no one at all. The truth is, I really do not remember.

CHAPTER 1

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Reminisce

I’m scrolling through Facebook and clicking Remove on people they suggest I should be friends with.

You show up.

We were friends for years and dated for three days or less.

Back then you told me you were afraid of commitment.

But you visited Jamaica a lot recently in the last few years.

You still look good, with a young supple body that won’t quit in your what? Late twenties, early thirties?

Makes sense.

Long black hair flowing down your back.

Cosmo said when women find who they want they cut it short.

Why did seeing you remind me of someone else I’ve loved more?

CHAPTER 2

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Poem 4

Sharp like a spear I watch as the pixels penetrate my perfect defenses.

How is it possible that I simply explode in your presence?

I don’t understand my mortal body, mind, or soul.

I would gladly give it to you to control.

Hold on to me, because I can’t escape this feeling!

I understand the complex nature of affections, but like this, my heart is Speed Racer.

Racing, you are my Mach 5, and I want to push all the fancy buttons.

Oil Slick Kick Flip Dust this competition under the rug, you are a drug, and I’m hooked to something.

Wondering if my idle