I love this poem the most for the line 'But with whom can you sleep ?' - there are usually few people in the world that you can sit alone with and feel so comfortable that you can quite happily yawn away and then snooze ! It's like reading - there are few people that you can sit in silence with and just read, without feeling some need to make conversation at some stage - I am lucky to have a few of those people in my life !
I don't see this then as a poem of romantic love and disappointment which I guess it is, but a poem to remind us of those people that we can happily yawn with !
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We met in the Valentino in Turin
And travelled through Italy by train,
Sleeping together.
I do not mean having sex.
I mean sleeping together.
Of which sexuality is,
And is not, a part.
It is this sleeping together
That is sacred to me.
This yawning together.
You can have sex with anyone
But with whom can you sleep ?
I hate you
Because having slept with me
You left me.
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