Touching the Hem of Ginsberg's Coat

Listening to you read to the great gods

digitalis, iPod, DDR

I realized I missed you

dripping coffee in my

honey-pot

reminding me that tracks marks

lead somewhere

and ten years is more than

roads untraveled

lives unlived.

All The People

Culminate the possibilities

that life is more than a succession

of small successions

And I, you, me, he, she

might just be then

flesh and bone

taste and sound

dirt and sky.

Prude

I wasn't okay when you tangoed
in the horizontal direction
with a powderless
moth

So I told you
poured my heart out in a
glass Smuckers jar

let you take a sip to linger
with cold Chinese and
alcoholed decisions

but she told me that two
was not a lucky number

and I wrapped myself in closer

hid the piece I gave you
that I thought you kept

dropped on the floor
of youthful indulgence and
reputation

gathered in hands still shaking
with weathered
disappointment.

Smoking Hot

Are your lungs

as you light their way

down a carcinogen lit path

to the revolving door of the

city morgue

And I feel bad

I really do

About constantly reminding you

in quiet comments and angry rants

But sometimes I feel if I had

put out a torch or

jammed the door

I might have you a little

longer

I might see you

a little more

I might know you

a little better

far beyond my own sadness

failed attempts

ashy wishes

beyond reality

heaped in piles

at your feet.

Mango Lemonade

You look good

soft and sweet

dripping nature's honey

down my lips

like a Snapple infomercial

on pollination

but how you sting

made me think that maybe

you weren't finely ground

industrial glass

shimmering to the touch

but sharp as hell

and can I blame you?

You are what you are

smiling in my fingertips

but tart on my

tongue.

Broken Record

Menthol state of mind

hidden behind a cardboard

fortress of papertude

day-dreaming about

day-dreaming

missing the sound of

clicking keys

squeaky tires

feminine laughter

three plus years later

and play it again, Sam

I never tire of remembering

the remembering of

you.