relationship

man woman

under pant

too damn tight

elastic between our

mantras tonight

we sought

simple greatness

amidst oversight

and then

we done

jeff @ whole foods

a boy appeared

between

the register and the line

his smile

painted faces

and i announced a "hi"

youth clean and

shaven

hebe drinks her wine

men are their

greatest

between 20 and a five.

call me.

the bean can

in settling for bed

i opened the cupboard

for a cookie or two

but no treats were found

only a can of

great northern beans

how much protein

is in a serving of beans?

7 grams. but get this,

on the can itself was the

vegetarian food pyramid

it was quite unlike anything

i had ever seen

and it read

eat your beans

drink your booze

all in good health

no joke.

go peep the pyramid

and let's go vegetarian tonight.

writers never die

there is a time

to bite a line

from a hero.

those of you who

never read him

might think

i was so quick

with words.

writers never die.

choices

a break through

my choice of sustained abstinince

i mispelled abstinence

fuck it.

beading

i pierced the couch with a violent eye

and passionately tried to thread beads

on a leather string

suddenly a fervent rage overcame me

and i started to fuck the glass balls

with a cord too thick for any such hole

i screamed beneath my breath so as not to

wake belle, and punched the sides of my head

like an angry gorilla during heat

be it the lack of cooperation,

stress, or old perfectionist tendencies,

but i had cracked, made a slave to a handful of glass

that was when i knew

i needed less wine, more structure

and an art project that didn't require nimble fingers.

no cuhunas

i knew you with balls

but took a recent census

and found your grove

had lost its nuts.

call it middle age,

or the be-witching

hour, but what the

heck happened

to the bone

that broke

your

self respect

and now you

only ring when

lady bird

flies da coup.

i miss those

prophecies of

i, self,

divine

and hope your

cuhunas

return home,

once again, brother.