Tuesday, August 21, 2007

For Rebecca Houwer

Mac Hoff     Dutch for     Pansy Petunia     leave me alone
If I love you — use it before it slimes over
so nothing               just let's make dinner
     A cheery breeze licks the cherry tree
Hmm. "This peanut sauce is a munificent stick-up
and sour"
      "bend over, spoon bender"     "they don't live together"
your grateful complicity    
  it is better than coffee
we sit by the rivers writing each other letters.

Will you hear the holler     "Hello, caller, yes?"
Your corn-stuffed ears zucchini
My witch doctor guesses. He's the Mexican Houdini.
           "Hunting, virginity, and the moon.
The succession of suicides is meaningless."

We escape. Aidez! Mwah!
Unknown swoop of a whore spilling out of a laundrette
is    literal and refractive    frequent and appropriate
is crazy we want and crazy let's get.    No. Sitting giddy
"Ladies to Gentlemen,"
       you keep the bad blues out of the building

and what do you know     feel    like a real human being.

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