Two Lovers
Bold or arrogant the women pass traipse me lonely taut straitjacket
Dunce on drug words
I shall sail Icarus to the red stop lights
Dangling above Leesburg Pike and find solace, respite there—one
Can drink elephantine only so
Much iced tea, blueberry it is called or Cachi-Cachi red
From Turkey or some such
Good for breathing and the larynx and the pituitary
Glands and it will make you ascend Icarus to
Heaven give me blue jeans and I will
Be like the rest, combing my hair and attending
The latest Hollywood movie for
20.95.
You were not the most beautiful of women yet
My sinews knew well that you were there and
I would have taken you to Lexington, Kentucky,
To talk of Elvis and Emmanuel Kant, whom
I have never read (but his name sounds good) and Andre Derain and the portraits
By Edgar Degas and
You shall talk of medicine two sterilized scalpels.