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2.
I had lost my muse
2 wks earlier.
K— who every poem I’ve
written is meant to seduce,
to woo—
told this F fella, an ugly avocado
student of early-cummings trash,
a 50+ man that lies in his poetry,
that he was a genius.
He sat up quickly—
the positive test subject
a pioneering viagra might’ve needed—
smirking.
Since then, things have
been
       disjointed.

I ask Leslie out for coffee
when the girls are done fighting.
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