Idoldyrkan

En dikt av mig till min idol Joyce Carol Oates:

Crush
For Joyce

I want to follow you around
Princeton University
Take notes behind hedges
Of how you walk and talk
With all the other professors
Who get to work and be in your
Proximity

As you go running by the lake
I’ll watch you through
the binoculars of my brain
hoping to get a glimpse of your ideas
and your imagination

In the evenings
I’ll take long walks by your house
As you lie sleeping
At your husband’s side,
While I’m sifting through images
Like grains of gold
Between un-manicured nails