Bawdy Woman

She mocks me like the fat, white buttocks of the moon.

I wonder silently:

"This is why you've come?"

I Ching

The I Ching reads:
"Persistence amounting to madness should be avoided."

And so today I acquiesce to the futilities, assuming instead of persistence resignation.

This too is madness.

The Pretty Neighbor

In humility I wait for you, vulnerable and shy.

I eye the little piece of you that skitters by.

Wistfully, I sigh.

I was the jealous lover

I was the jealous lover of my child

whose teeth began to yellow, to brown,

to blacken and to crumble

into the throat of a reckless boy.

Housemate

He's a man with a dog's set of eyes.
I look into his unsmiling face and I see Tommy,
my old dead dog the vet guessed was maybe part cocker.

He almost thinks.

What would you have us do?

"What would you have us do
with your numerous writings?"
queried the companions of a dabbler in verse.

"Eat them," he answered, "with soup."