La Passionara from Lark by Lark

La Passionara

You hooked me
You looked me over
Your mouth unfolding
A smilers web conceiving my desire for you
Your bed as hard as trusted nails which clawed me back
Drawing bloody scenes of what we would.

To be together
After all these years
No matter what
No matter whether, it doesn’t
We’re still together

In Spain, there was a woman
Bold and beautiful
La Passionara had only to avert her eyes
Which shone like jewels
Fought for in the grasping sun
Converting boys to sinners
Or returning them home to Mother
No place for toothless gringos in this human race

For time is on our side
Composure open wider than the flood gates in the morning tide
Call be crazy if you like
But I have a hazy memory of when we danced at dawns
Diving for pleasures
You unfurled your tentacles like widows wings
Soon our lips had picked up the necessary lingo
You said my moves had all the gracefulness of a flamingo
With steel plated legs
So I enticed you
To spread your favours
On grassy Dawns
Not once, not twice not thrice
I named you all four lawns.

In Spain, there was a woman
Bold and beautiful
La Passionara had only to avert her eyes
Which shone like jewels
Fought for in the grasping sun
Converting boys to sinners
Or returning them home to Mother
No place for toothless gringos in this human race

Drunk in moon-dust
We crazy paved our future based on a love of lust
And a lust for love
There you’ve made me say it
I love the way our love has not decayed in time
I love you ways like I love La Passionara
La Passionara like I love you

Jonathan Presland April 1993

• Alternative
• Diverse
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• Milton Keynes