Title: Circumsiliens (1/1)

Author: morphea@alloymail.com

Summary: Oz reflects on Buffy and the relationships she's having with normal boys in college. Basically, Oz/Buffy friendship. T'would be a poem, but it's Oz, so this is a song. Yeah. G. Season 4.

Disclaimer: Joss owns BtVS. This is not meant as a copyright infringement. As far as distribution goes, if you want it, and you'll keep the headers in tact & attatched and won't change the fic, take it; I'm flattered.

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Babe, you've got a Sun Tzu tan

Down your Cleopatra legs.

So there's always some handsome man

Swimming through the reeds and dregs.

I worry when I watch you --

I wonder if you'll get through --

Will he swoon, spin, slip, and cry

To your strange, coy crocodiles?

Choke, twitch, bleed, and rot on high?

Wink and sink into the Nile.

I watch you hold up secrets

As you're trying to fall yourself

Into boys who can swear it's

All legend and slink, not stealth.

What boy wouldn't follow you?

I worry when I watch you --

I can give you metaphors

I can tell you otherwise;

I can guess what friends are for

When I see him on your eyes.

You arched, and he touched your face

He stripped away your duty

But it's the grind, not the grace

Those boys insist is beauty.

I worry when I watch you --

How much you hide to get through --

There are cracks in what you are:

Your rivers run hangman truths.

Even the scary monsters

Have shivered and sighed for you.

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"I'm having a slight case of nudity here." Buffy to Oz in "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"