To Pine For Love

To Pine For Love


I checked out an Argentinean movie from the public library
It was titled, “Un Amor de Borges.” He was 46 yrs. old, and
Fell in love with a 26 yr. old. He lived with his overbearing mother, and was still unknown. The protagonist was painfully beautiful to behold, yet when there was a love scene, it came out wrong. She was supposed to be an idealist communist, and her passion..

Was lacking, in her expression and kiss. It did not help that Borges
Refused her advances, saying that he did not know how to kiss
At 46? There they were, she undressed, making a futile attempt to
Arouse him, and entice him into shedding his apprehensions, and
The shadow of his mother. She did not succeed, even as beautiful
as she was then. I would have liked to tell her…

If you deal with a momma’s boy, you better grab him by the balls
And show him whom he belongs to. If you fall into a relationship
With a man who is ambivalent about his inclinations, you better
Get inside his head, and play the part of the man. Even if you have
To strap on unconventional ideas, which conflict with your childhood notion of price charming. I mean if it’s a marriage of convenience…right?

I’d also tell her that when a man and a woman go to a sordid hotel
And disrobe, there is no perhaps, or simply getting to know
You make him feel at ease, and before you know it, you’re down
On him, and hell will freeze over before there’s any turning back
He loves you and puts you on a pedestal? Are you kidding me?
During WWII, you better get loved to make some sense of the carnage

So in the end Borges pines for his lost love, the one he refused to
Thoroughly fuck. I say they were both at fault, and I am only glad
That I did not pay a single dollar to rent this crap.
She coasted on her looks, and he relied on his charm
That ain’t enough to satisfy or cohere a relationship doomed from
The start. There’s got to be genuine passion and mutual lust!





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