unsteady, giddy, delirious
gleam of that freedom?
8. They became the roles they played.
But like those lovers who came before
they fell prey to . . . magical thinking . . .
and thought:
if we ignore the world
and make a new life in a far off place
it will
. . .
leave us alone .
9. The tabloids covered their every move:
and from here on in, whether spear-fishing
the Technicolor coral reefs off Puerto Vallarta
after Burton was done
with his whiskey-priest role in
Night
of
the Iguana
or taking each other on the hot white sand,
or whirling in the local cantinas, high
on atomic margueritas, (Cuervo
Gold, Cointreau, ice and lime)
nunc
est bibendum,
they could not shake the un-
easy feeling you get when you're being watched,
and your behavior, in ways you cannot
measure, is ... : changed.
10. But
learning how to make the best of it
is the whole
. . .
and there were
compensations; the small,
prelapsarian coastal town
was not a bad place to fall;
the streets smelled sweet after rains,
