TO BE FIRST

         In line for a kiss,

         Beneath the moonlit touch

         Of a hooker’s hand

         Of course she’s a loved one

         Loved one, loved all:

         French kisses on me, in her

         Favorite women’s room

           The sky is a walnut,

           A prune,

           A lady in waiting

           For yet another

           Eruption,

           Another immortal moment

           Inside the rock,

         It was the second time

         We’d met, the very second time

         Our eyes brushed against the aura

         Tinted air and minutemeasured

         Time became second time.

       NOW

         Hardeyed, I tell you

         Love, never a code word,

         Forbad

         Words of experience

         That sounded similar to

         “I love you…

             Every night, a little more burned out,

             Sons of sex maniacs and whoremongers

             Sons of coming and going with booze

             Daughters of the milking breast

             Daughters of the hammered hemorrhoid

             Fathers of future disease

             Fathers of freedom

             Mothers of need and greed

             Mothers of the wash room

             Grandfathers of progress

             Grandfathers of mass production

             Grandmothers of silent watchfulness

             Your fame and glory

             Are candles without wax, (wicks floating in oil)

             On the nightclub scene

ADRIFT

       HE IS A FAT FOOL

             Fat fuck

             Got fat,

             Doesn’t fuck.

       HE HIDES BEHIND

   THE ADROIT EXPRESSION

       I HEAR HIS FAT SOUNDS.

       TIED TO THE VIVID

       EXPLOSION

             The sky is not a velvet cock

             Nor the earth a womb

             Of only warmth

             Sister Q.Z. (THAT’S ME!)

             Had a man who couldn’t please me,

             Didn’t even try to tease me,

             Needing, as I do, a spank and a whack

             When I scratch his brother’s back

         I was a fat tub

         Standing on squat legs

         Young and begging

         To be entered

         But you gave me a diamond scrub

         Descended upon me from above

         And, in bubblebath crystals,

         You brought me lilacs.

       GO AHEAD  GO AHEAD AND LIVE!!!!

     AESTHETIC RAPTURE  THE FIVE SENSES

         Held up

         By the builder’s cement

         Stuck

         Together

         Up to our groins

         In love

       GROUNDDOWN

       APHRODISIAC,

               By Twit Nevershare

               I am modeling myself in porcelain

               Halfbaked highlights, rerounded

               And rerouted in the runny clay,

               The glint of light does not enter me

               As I shape the outside of my poetry

             There lies my mistress in her bed

             She’d like to move but her limbs are dead

             Her mind alive with rainbow wings

             Porcelain yellows

             With the thinstreamed truth

             After the love juice

             Why waste a woman’s life

             With postage sent for vanity

             Training her thoughts toward Gothic strife

             When she could blow revolution’s fife

             Instead of “mine”, instead of flirting with insanity?

       SLITHERING

ANALECTA

       DELECTABLE

       EAT IT!

         You drive your car

         Naked

         But not without

         A seat belt

       DO IT THE WAY I TELL YOU TO.

       PARTAKE OF LIBERAL THINKING

       AND, OF COURSE,

   ANDROGYNE

       TOO.

             We gather words

             Like lonely ladies

             Calling for demons

             To impregnate the pauses

       IN THE

     ANGEL SUN

       ANGLE SON

       DANGLING

       FISHSTORY BIG

               His tush

               As good as gravy

               His lips

               Were wide awake

               Her tush

               As good as gravy

               Her lips

               Were wide awake

               I am only a condom, a squirt

               A come here, get away.  Her walls

               Are rainbow wings; I slip out

               From the envelope of her body, smaller

               Less impressive, no more there

               Than the fantasy that filled her

       FLUFFY, FLUFF ME, LOVELY, LOVELY

ANIMA

       ENEMA

             Why women scream

             Because of their multiple men

             Because of their menstrual release

             Because of their mutual isolation

             Because they don’t wear rubbers

       BUSTLES ENCASE

       YOUR GLUTES

       HIDING HARRIED PRE

       OCCUPATIONS

         ExWife’s Rival

         She must feel to him

         Like a stone cold crack,

         For me to be satisfied

             And the snores trumpet

             Juice dreams of daring

             But you, with your legs

             Parted, are my fantasy

       BUT YOU WITH YOUR LEGS PARTED

       ARE MY FANTASY

       NOT

ANYTHING THAT MOVES.

               This poem was written

               By the man in the moon

               “It’s sexual suicide to be

               Lit like this, with freezing buns”

         I remember waking up

         With a bad poem in my headache

         Coughing up cupie dolls

             Words worried wasted when

             The man fell on his face

             Into the warm wet gutter

             Of his woman’s disgrace

       BUT I’LL BET SHE HAD FUN, WET FUN

         I dream

         Pin pricks

         Pins and needles

         On your fallenasleep

         Pinpricked pen,

         Prick

         And you love it, don’t you?

       A REGULAR STORM IN A REALLY FUN EXOTIC PLACE

           Base emotions

           Acid love

         Message to Michelle

         Translate me

         With a little taste

         Lick the words clean

         Sucking sounds out

         Before filleting them

       CRAZY LEGS

       BEGS

       TO BE BRITTLE

       BEFORE YOU

               Big balls bounce

               Red and brown, down

               The slopes of San Francisco

               In pairs, past flower shops

               Past the bakery, and into

               The traffic below

             Telescope illusion

             Of coq au main

               Always something miniature

               In the mind when a lover’s absent

       FOR A BARE TRIBE

         She stuck a flower

         In his barrel

         He stuck a barrel

         In her flower

               We were taking a tour of the farm

               Until, suddenly I screamed with alarm

               Just seventeen goats and a bunny

               So I thought it rather unfunny

               To feel a goose on my bountiful charms

         Telephone Tearings

         I called an old boyfriend

         Told him I was being eaten

         Alive

         He asked if he could help

         I said the problem was too

         BIG!!

         For him to help with

         And that this was to be my final,

         Final goodbye

               I can not color in your eyes

               The oil on that old canvas,

               Unfinished, dry, in cream

               Skincolor sits.  The studio,

               Empty, I study your thighs;

               I don’t think they’re right,

               Either.

         on joy

         oh, joy!

         enjoy on joy.  enjoy joy.

         enjoy joy on joy.

         on joy, enjoy joy.

           Serpent healing?

   THE BLIZZARD RAMBLER

             I cranked up the Grand Prix

             For his girlfriend from Australia

             While we were awaiting her plane

             Said, “let’s go for a ride”

             Told her, in secret, “I’m a storm

             Buster.  See that thunderhead?

             We’re going into it.”  We did.

             At about a hundred, hydroplaning,

             We rode the length of the storm and then

             Turned around and rode the storm backwards.

             She said her fear of airplanes had been cured.

             (please note, it wasn’t written like

             Turned around and rode the storm backward

                                                 doggiestyle,

             Daisychaining with the other wild women, rough riders.

             She said her fear of flying had been cured.

             Now was it?)

         I spit into the cold

         Dark corridors of your soul

         To lubricate the vamp you were

             Selfconscious

             I

             Still see

             Depth

             In her newmade

             Love poetry

         I bounced off of men

         Like the drunk I was

         To the player piano rhythm

         Of dentists socializing

         Feeling the spikes of their approval

         Like pollenmasked migrant workers

         On the side of the highway

         Kerchiefs flapping against the napes of their necks

         Garbage bag dragged in one gloved hand while the other

         Speared the litter on the edges

         Of my vagina.

       SPARKING

BOREALIS

       AURORA NIPPLES

             Barmaid titmouse

             With a pocket full

             Of cheese

             Doesn’t want to sell

             Much more than sleaze

               The gogo girl

               Came

               To sit on

               His Saturday

               Suntan

               Went without

               Waiting

               For (money) day

BRUNSWICK

       BECOMES ASH

       WHEN THE LOVEWAX

       WANES

         Sperm suspension

         Without suspense

             They forced her to pose

             In that way with them

             She’s the one with the cocaine

             Eyes, strawberry thighs

             And a mouthful of

             Muttered, fluttering

             Obscenities

         Watching My Father Piss

         He, who tinkled tremendous

         Gushings beside me from eye

         Level and whipped it in after

         Shaking it off, made me linger

         Would I find a thick one, brown and long?

           Lick a guava for luck

       PRETEND

     CARING

               Anything sucking

               Reminds me of

               What you said

               About my poetry

               Everything creaking

               And wrinkled and poor

               Glows on the wet face

               Of youth you adore

             Poetry lives as long

             As pen meets paper

             In any gutter or penthouse

             Where there is feeling to express

             Or thought to share

             But good poetry goes

             Where great poetry doesn’t dare

             And will until the penthouse pet

             Kisses the gutter dog with glee

             And calls the barking “great poetry”

             Siniod at Maggie’s Nipple

             Taut horizon

             Pitted face of the moon

             Rolling, round hills

             Licked by lightning

CATHARTIC

       PUSSY DAYDREAMS

               Sex queen

               Starved for psychic

               Salivation,

               Lips licked,

               Eyes popping out,

               And other

               Manifestations of

               A sex scream

               “More!  Bigger!

               Deeper!”

         Nobody is home

         When

         Nobody is foreign

         But

         I’ll bet I’ve had some boyfriends

         Who could make a foreigner out of you.

           Crotched random

               Caveats and screams

           Warm worm?

       NO FORCED

CHASTITY

       NO MOIST

       JAZZ TITTY

         A Good Date

         He grabbed my hair

         And pulled

         And pushed

       SIN, SIN

CINCINNATI

         I’m old but I’m rich

         And I’m a poet

         Full of

         Goblet wailings

         And lucky rain

         So, fuck me good

         Or I’ll complain

         You’re not enough

         And then you’ll be

         Up shit’s creek

         With only rope for

         A paddle

         It seems to be morning, Sour Puss.

         You don’t need to purr

         Until you get your coffee

         In the kitchen and suck it down

       PEELED OUT IN THE STRETCH MARKS

       BURNED

CLUTCH

       OUT

       ON THE PROWL FOR WHAT

   CLYDE

       WANTED IN THE

COACH HOUSE

       ON

COCHRAN’S CORNER

       IN THE COLD

         All I see is the ugly,

         Pretending so hard to be pretty.

         I am pretty.  I am.

           You’re considering the bikini

           And want to bugger the girl?

               Cuntlicker

               I’m a cunt licker with long tongue

               I eat them alive

               But can’t tell you that

               In a plain simple way,

               Hide behind the mask

               Of solopseudopsychology

               And “your turn today”

             Why not frame the remains?

             Bronze the toothpick he used;

             Put the wine glass under glass

             With a touch of red wine and his dribble

             Still inside, vacuum seal it.

             He comes; he goes.

             You don’t desperately need him

             He comes; he goes.

             You won’t leave up the toilet seat

             He comes; he goes.

               Why ream the rim

               Before you get the ball in?

               Why play your first game

               In dirty socks?

             Trinkets of erotica, shattered romance

             In twisted love dance crystal

             Of diminishing frequency

             Refracted into an infinity

             Of excuses

           Certain times

           Newborn certain time

           In timeless now

           Times within the now

           Oh, yeah, and love moving universes

           Celestial music and

           “Calm” fucking “the storm”

           Salt lick suckers

           Froglike toads

           Weather or not

           We wear our thick skin

         I’m going to say

         Some really nice

         Sensitive things

         And then say,

         “Hey! Trust me.”

         On the lip of your KT boundary

         I count 26 million years

         With my fingers

             Side to side

             In front of me

             Swinging

             Up and down

             For fantasy

         Senses tuned to wild life

         She was never alone

       EXPERIENCES

CRYSTAL RAINBOW

       WAKEUP CALLS

               Epileptic

               Take off

               Into the mind’s

               Miasma

         A golf and orgasm instruction video

               Well, bigger than you were,

               Duckface

               Finger fucker

               Lover

       SECURE BULLDYKE

DREAM SHOP

       AROUND THE CLOCK

       BUSINESS BUT NOT

       STOP AROUND THE COCK

       GAY MARY

         Meringúe meringue

         Murdered Moments

         Unfolding face

         Drinking the “rivulets

         Between my breasts”,

         But then he had to go

         And chant and pop out

         Into “night”, “earth”, “time”.

               Eating seeds

               Silent

               Falling eggs cushioned

               By crunchy snow

               Maiden form

               Frescos

               Hellos

               On string bikinis

               Bronze

               The oily sunscreen

           I Stoop to Surrender Him to Him

           Worry is wasted mental time

           When over a woman unloving, wild,

           Out, and free.  I knew I wouldn’t stay

           With him for longer than a whistlestop

           But wanted him to please me hard,

           Completely, slutless,

           Firm grip on my loose bosom,

           Arms hugging my writhing waist (no, not waste)

             I could mention my lost lovers’

             Names if they alone told the story,

             If they were in the rhythm of lost

             Love poetry

         Jazz Intonations in Intercourse, PA.

         Your P.A. was a public address

         Improvising on a latex fruit

         The squishing sounds of evaporating consonance

         Lubricated by light tinkles on the tin roof

         And a romantic motif, barely remembered

         Your lips lost in smudges of strawberry stain

ELLIPSE

       OF UNSPOKEN LOVE

         Mon oiel!

           It’s hard not to look at something you like.

         Too painful to be a lie

         I puff and wail at your bellyup swollen boredom

         Try to find a chuckle on your earlobe

       THIS PAGE FOREMOST

       MUST BE GOOD

       MUST GRAB THE ATTENTION

       MUST BEGIN AGAIN FRESH

       LIKE THE UNDRESSER FROM ODESSA

       WHO TAKES HER CLOTHING OFF

       FOR THE TENTHOUSANDTH TIME

       BUT MUST MAKE IT NEW AND EXCITING

       FOR THE LONELY MEN WHO LOVE HER

   FAITH

       IN HER LEGS

         Summer Bake by Dianna Walker

         I hardly bake on Summer days

         No longer than his erection

         The hot kitchen flexes its stomach

         And sweats down the windowpanes

         The sun is a fluffy hot bun

         Air melting like butter around it

         And I huff and puff, swallowing 6 of 11.

         Damn straight!

         You gave nothing but speed bumps

         Looked long and narrow

         Like a highway over the horizon

         But were a parking lot

         Blah, breaking up is hard to undo

       TO A

FLIPSIDE

       LIKE

             The soppy side

             Of a sloppy ride

         Oh, gosh, how much, how terribly much, I do miss.

         The good, old, sentimental verse

       MAYBE, IF IT ISN’T WORK TO KEEP LOVE ALIVE,

       I WANT TO BE THERE WHEN I RETIRE

         Skinny dipping with an Angel

             Poets unite

             Your tongues

             on THIS!

       FUCKFACE TRICKY TONGUE

       CUNT HAIR ENTWINED WITH HIS HAIR

       (OR HER HAIR  WHOSE HAIR? WHOSE HAIR IN WHICHES?

       IN WITCHES?  HEY, FUCKFACE, ON TOTEM POLES,

       HEY, PROTEIN ENRICHES LUBRICATING HIS TONGUE

       SPRAY LIQUID PROTEIN LIKE SPRAY STARCH

       THAT’S WHAT THEY KEPT TELLING ME [BEFORE AIDS])

       FUCKFACE TRICKY TONGUE

       CUNT HAIR ENTWINED WITH HIS HAIR

       DENTAL FLOSS  THE NATURAL WAY

       YOUR

       OSTENTATIOUS

       BIKINI CUISINE

       A

FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD

       A

FRENCH BROAD

       A

FRIEND’S JOURNAL

FRITZ

       IN FANTASTIC POSES

         Then her

          Mallard

           Dyke

            Uses that bread as stuffing

             To stuff them

              And dresses their legs

               In paperlace doilies

             What pain you like

             What pleasure is to you

             Stinging truth about sensation

GINGER HILL

       SUGAR HILL

       CANDY MOUNTAIN

       “HONEY, I’M HOME

       LOLLYPOP LADEN”

         I’ve got to say something about asking for what you want

         in a way that people can understand

GOING DOWN SWINGING

             Isn’t that what swingers do?

         Fuck any considerations of anything poetic,

         Throw in Tina and What’s Love Got to Do With It?

             Ascribing greatness

             Like gifts  to the moon

             With a crack in the middle

         Life is a thousand minuscule mindaltering

         Amazements every fucking day!

             Always the myth of genetic studdom!

             CAN’T get away from stereotypes!

             (CerwinVega, Pioneer, Crown, Nacamitchi, Sansui)

         All these words

         All these unnecessary words

         About wishing for great poetry

         (And all I really want to say is that I love you

         and have you believe it)

             Remember this, you fuck!

             You didn’t marry me to suck.

             Half of your cock is mine!

             That part, I take care of just fine.

         Poetry pictures

         Because they censor t.v.

               Queen bee

               Lies about the honey

HEAVEN BONE

       SIMPLICITY,

       A BONER

             Were sipping dandelion wine,

             Talked, got drunk, I watched the time,

             Fucked her and left, remembering.

               You’re not half done yet, hamburger,

               Don’t make me eat you raw

         The Pioneer hope of spreading wide

         Aware

         The senses are five

         At least

HIS GARDEN

         In France,

         You demand

         An answer, in English,

         Say “There are no Frenchmen”

         When they just look at you.

         From a French brothel

         You stomp away

         When she refuses

         Your demand to

         “Show your tits in English”

             For widows

             I will kiss

             The walls of their

             Disappointment

             With yellow paint and

             A pleasant yellow smile

         Your husband made such a fuss about your diary

         And you, of course, sent it to me

         Happy, nappy

         Unarrested

         Dresses

         That incite

         Desperate freedom

         Stabs from

         Baggypanted

         Conformists

             Up the light

             Public streets

             Of my hosiery

         Same old Sunday morning

         Latex in satin sheets

         Cages of squealing cockatiels

         Teal highcut gown, cut and ripped

         Until it was lowcut and then lost

         And tomorrow will be another same old

         Monday, going shopping for formal wear

             I wasn’t brash enough

             To handcuff your slender arms,

             Blindfold you, whisper waste words,

             Even when you begged to be

             Like a fluffed goosedown pillow

             To give comfort to my head

             The thigh of the dancer tender

             Smooth to my touch, a smile for a while

             But no table dances

             Not girl for girl

             Just youth remembered

             In tactile desperation

           Her body is ripe

           But I don’t pick her

         Heplophobes

         Try to outlaw

         My feminine mystique

             Yes, I recognize

             The soft touch of your slipstream

             As we waft past each other

               And planets explode

               In her hungry mouth

             To cure me he pulled out

             And swollen pride subsided

         Lank,

         For a second,

         I thought I had spoken

         For the third time

         With an inch between my legs

         Indelibly wounded

         Abstract expressionism

         No!  No!  No!

       WASHING

JOHNS

JOURNAL

       DISALLOWING

       THINGS MY OLD BOYFRIEND SAYS AT WORK LIKE,

       HOW ABOUT A LITTLE INSPIRATION FOR THE CONVERSATION

       A LITTLE FINANCE FOR THE ROMANCE

       A LITTLE GREENERY FOR THE SCENERY

       A LITTLE CASH FOR THE FLASH

       A LITTLE DOUGH FOR THE SHOW

       A LITTLE TIPPING FOR THE STRIPPING

               Don’t lie to us

               She pushed her finger

               Into something else

             Would God love a stripper?

         You nibble the central vein

         Of vanity

           Had to get Limas

           Between someone’s knees

         Last saltlizard

         A sex lick

         Slick sex

         On the slippery slope

         Of the passion levee

         Filled with the power

         Of the hard swat of waves

         Along the warm, lapping

         Of the ocean’s edge

         Chainsawme

         Oils the tree

         To cut deeper

         Into its heart

             Mirrors and ripples

             Waves and warm spots

             And no electricity hum

             No boombox distraction

             No news about the war

               Your thighs revealed a dry well

               Before the pump was primed

               Flaccid and frigid we made

               A lofty love

               (No hay fever here)

         Go not gently into that deep delight

         Rage, rage against the rhythm of the night

         Though your limbs are long and your buns are tight

         Rage, rage against the rhythm of the night

         And go not gently into my deep delight

             Lah lah lah

             Lah lah lah

             You do put down

             Your own thoughts

             Putdown pudding

             Lah lah lah

             Tapioca

             Philosophy

             With runny eyes

             Lah lah lah

             You swallow

             Anyway

         Everything is everything?

         In fantasy throes

         My lover want me to squeeze

         Out the milk that I can’t produce

         With her

             Some days deserve

             A good spanking

           Meter

           Rhythm

           Meet her

           Rhythm

           Meter

           Rhythm

           Match tonight

           Match to ignite

           Meet her with him

           Peter

           Ho hum

           Penis pounding

           Her tight drum

           Meter

           Rhythm to ignite

           Match to light

           On her rhythm

           Drummer in love

           With a Metermaid

           Now that’s the ticket

     LIP SERVICE

       FOR LOSERS

               Why do we all look

               At our genitals

               As an excuse?

LIPS

       CHEAP

           It was any morning

           I woke up with….

           Whomever

             The dismal decline

             Of the Dustbunny

             And Furburgers, too

         Poetic porn

         Focus that camera

         I want to see her wrinkles

               Your blowup doll

               Doesn’t deflate when pricked

               Your imagination

               Doesn’t collapse when tricked

               But lack of use and frequent abuse

               Can leave a loss of function

       LOCKED HEARTS ARE OFTEN

       ALL THAT ARE LEFT

       WHEN FINALLY HEARD

         Soupsucker

         Pigeon plucker

         Fidgeting with his belt buckle

         Drooling over plastic balls

         That melt off the flesh

         And into the vegetables

         “That one’s fresh, got plenty of meat,

         You see?  I shot my load into him last night.”

         He takes out his teeth,

         “Saved for chewing beef.  This stew’s a

         Tender treat to gum”

         Row row row his boat

         Up a slippery stream

         Dip the oars and pick them up

         Dripping in my dreams

         A Brief History

         Got `em

         Wore `em

         Ripped `em with my teeth

         (Used `em to polish my shoes)

               Drag your bra and panties on me like a cave

               Full of the same bats.

               She wasn’t a lesbian, just looking

               How deep into love can we go

               Before we admit we were not blind

               In the midnight meadow?

       AND NOW THE ONLY SPOTLIGHTS

       GLOWING IN THE NIGHT SKY

       POINT, WHEN FOLLOWED DOWNWARD,

       TO THE TITTY BARS OF THE AREA

       TO SUCK HIS EGO UNTIL HIS WALLET

       IS EMPTY AND HIS PANTS ARE WET

MAHOGANY AND MOLASSES

           Mount her good name

       STICKING TO THE ROOTS OF TREES

       IN THE WASH BETWEEN SHORES

             Freestyle

             Swimmers, lean,

             Dive

             Into the same lane

             Music, tongue

             Aftertaste,

             Brandy dream

             Sticky dress,

             Silky

             Hot piano

         Bending recognition

         Got a girl whose name is Mimi

         Even if she doesn’t see me

         Gonna keep her all the same

         Unless she tries to change her name

             Pandora has brown eyes

             This time

               I hug him with my poetry

         Pretend emotion

         With a pseudo name

         “And away go troubles down the drain”

       WITH NEON DANCES

       SOULTRAIN BEAT

       WITHOUT SOULMATE

       STIRRINGS JUST SHAKEN

       DRINK MIXES

       NOT UNKNOWN IN

MICHIGAN

       MEN BALK

         Trying for earthquakeinspired

         Resurrection, trying to pull out

         Of a deep pussy willow sleep

       GOING BICOASTAL

       WHEN THEY HAVE TO UNDRESS AGAIN

         Fucking the midwife during the delivery

             I’m a saddlestapled

             Matte card

             Cover girl

             Fuzzy but fun

       BEFORE THE ANGEL SHOWS UP

       BEFORE THEY WILL STRIP

       BECOMING

MODERN BRIDE

       AND GROOM VOWED WITH VOWELS

       THAT IMITATE

MODERN HAIKU

MOODY STREET

       BED BUGS OF MARRIAGE MAILBOXES

MORROW

       MORNING EATING

       THE MARROW OF LUST

     MOSIAC

MOSIAC

       PROSE

           Tired,

           Mad,

           We have to prove love

           Before

           We make it

           We fuck to find it

           Become too tired

           To continue searching

           And then settle

           When we both know he has power,

           We no longer enjoy my groveling

             We make music with the tools

             We swing or sit on or vibrate or hum into

       CALLING FOR CONNECTIONS

           Hummer gives a change of look

             Plastercasting spells the feminine kink

             Sticky, stuck to me, StUCK

         Paint your woman’s walls

         With meaning and truth

NINETYSIX

         Just barely legal

         Almost 69

             Doubletalk doublestandard doubledipped dick

             He rubbed me with atomic balm

             I blew up and hit the ceiling

         Stairs stares sinking in

         Ah, what the fuck  looking up my dress

       DRIPPING WATER

       SEX ADDICTS IN

OBLEK (OBLIQUE)

       PEEKS OF BOOHOO BLACK

       THE FACTS OF LIFE  THE TYPEWRITER IS TURNING ME ON

       BOUNCING LIKE A BAD SUSPENSION

       ON A BUMPY ROAD.  LET THIS GO

         I won’t tell you

         You must see me

         Flashing you but

         I love that look

         Of surprise

         Flashing teeth

         And dental shields

         Open

         But not unprotected

               Is lady licking lady

               Poetry poetry

               Because secrets are a romance

               That is not mawkishly hackedknees?

         Niagara Agoraphobia

         Doubt in a box

         Plunging vaccinations

         Against the roar of

         Virginity

             The guitar understands logarithms better

             Than the mathematicians understand the glue bacteria

             I want to crawl up and have sex with something

         He slipped away

         Loud, abruptly, like the cork

         He so favored in his red wine.

         I sniffed and sipped but passed

         On that old bottle

             She slipped away

             Squish, slosh, sliding

             On the raspberry lubrication

             She so often had caught on her tongue

             Between her teeth, like seeds and skin

         If all your strings were plucked right now

         You’d make an overtone gash into the musical side of love

       DISTRACTED AGAIN, SHE HAD

       OPENED HER BOX BEFORE

       FOR A

PANHANDLER

       WITH BIG EYES

       AND LONG HAIR

         Dune cradles

         Sand cracks

         Under inverted

         Sky, dripping

         Foam

             Mobius

             Stripped

             For his pleasure

           The steam in your moustache

           Sticks to you like Winter love

           A steam that recycles and starts again.

               I sucked your toes

               You sucked mine

               Then you went home

               And wrote down lies.

             Bare feet

             Inserted into the maiden

             Sea

         Tight voice

         Luminous

         Drippings of dew

         Off leaves

         Dawn

         Drenched in muted

         Cockadoodles

         A Vision of Cal

         Clothier

         Zipping up

         My miniskirt

         Blanched

         Eyes

         Jerking

         His breathing

         Gratitude

       THE TRAIN REACHES

PENNSYLVANIA

       AND AGAIN

PENNSYLVANIA

       IT’S A WIDE STATE

         Hairpie Discrete

         Munch, munch

         Eat a world

         Lunch, lunch

         With a girl

         I don’t care

         How much you weigh

         I’ll lunch and munch you everyday

         The same essential stillness

         A brassiere cutting off circulation

             One little piggie

             Got slippery

         Pep tide

         Pep toe

         Abysmal depth

         Of endless murky streams

         Clamped peptight

         At the feel of warm waves

         Peppy prep for evacuation

           In wishbone configurations

           Stretched wings

           Resilience

           Doesn’t have

           To be

           Concession

           “Get your fish here!… yes,

           We have no hot dogs.”

         Birdbrained lines

         But still, but soft

         Fly over my mountains;

         I’ll be your baby

           To Withstand

           Sliding dew

           Darkest stars touch

           Mooneyed crescent hill

           An endless girl

           On couldnot nights

           Of a gentle hand

             Touch my sad

             Forsythia

               N Dear

               Older,

               I endear them to me,

               Me to them, with

               Cuddles and massage

         Alcoved All

         Dragonfly heart

         Behind

         Peering sunrise

         Awaiting more universe

         One shore

         One one one one

         Pretty shabby grace

         To forget

         A last embrace

             Dim song

             Ended at an arbitrary point

             Called a period.

PIKESTAFF

       STRONG ENOUGH

       TO CREASE THE HEART

       OF UNREALITY WITH A SOCIAL WOUND

             Pompoms and poems

             On pretty legs

             In pretty lines of

             Please, release me!

       FUCK!

       THIS IS JUST A MERCY FUCK,

       HONEY,

       DON’T GET ALL EXCITED.

             In all thy orisons be the virgin remembered

             Professions of love

             Swim down your throat,

             Amy? Do the bubbles

             Tickle your nose?

             Ice and Crystal

             Break

             Trying to bond

         “Put ‘er into third, baby!” she cackles, with lust

         “Rock me like

         Hypocrisy!  Oh, yeah.”

         Let’s go, you and I

         Like a yoyo and a dodo

         To the brink of our love

         Or maybe to the Stop and Go

             A sip of tension lessened

             Left lifted, absence took us,

             Our glasses left grazing her

             Thundercloud toockus

               Talking to Plants

               I love you still

               Shriveling, losing rigidity

               Or turgid tonnage, filled with life fluid.

               I wet you down and purr to you

               And say how pretty you are

               But I never seem to treat you

               Nicely enough

               To get you to buy that new, yellow car

             I’ll bet someone there

             Was staring at your tits and ass

               Selfinflicted, perfect lips

               Hard tunnel for my choo chew

               Tooth impressions, scrape marks

               Balloon lips bought

               Deflated

             How much poetry fits into a box?

         Liquor

         Left no room to

         Lick her

         Spinning, spinning, spun

             Hot Dog

             “Lain out naked and long”

             Without a good bun

             I wished there were catsup,

             Mustard, but most of all,

             Relish

             Braless

             Does the best poetry

             Speak “best

             With its body?”

               Memories of Max?

               Thrill me to the min

               You know, that’s just a few blocks away

               From farago

               Where he flashed, reflected

               In your polished, silver bowl

         This head is a big head

         nuff said

           Lens Occlusion

           Hunter with scope

           Thinks he’s bigger

               The nurse talks about snakes

               Remembering the giant ones

               And the little ones

               And those that were very different

               Maybe the brightlycolored ones

               Or those that were some sort of first

               But doesn’t remember the last

               One they see before they’re bitten?

             Confetti silk

             Incipient stone

             Catfight clammor

             We’re both in love

             With the same woman,

             Inside us

         Pinched nose

         Between his crack

         Two birds with one

         Asshole

             Rushing River

             It’s not fair to the delta

             To be so close to the ocean

             With you,

             Seedless, tired, running away.

         Perhaps, it’s a ball game

         The sun is out

         He scratches balls, rolls bat in fingers

           SheetMetal Husband

           Sheetmetal machine

           Sets the rhythm

           For our sex

               From the “girth of expulsion”

               I go “pop”

         These bubbles glistening down

         My bosom are my toys, my treasure,

         My perimeter.  These baubles glittering

         On my bosom are …..

         Men want them

         Removed before they see me

             Lick my coins?

         Hubbybubby

         You’re a froggie!

         Happy anniversary

             My lines are only good

             When people watch me dance

         Hey, Cristy, I’ll put my tongue around you

         You don’t mind fresh fish, do you?

         I’ll call you flounderface

         And you can keep the name as your own

       IN THE SAND OF

SANTA MONICA

       AND DOWN THE BRONZED BACK OF

SANTA SUZANA

             To control your man,

             Fake frustration

           To dam or not to dam

           That is the fishy question

         My poetry has

         A footprint fetish

         She ladys her headlights into me like

         Bumper car cushions, her electrical switch expertise,

         The way she fingers it should convince me

         She’s got a man

         Wants the switch deep inside

         Guided only by Chilton’s

         Her book of turnons and turnoffs

         Did I hear you correctly?

         Did you say

         “Sing a song

         And suck my cock?”

         The spirit of her tits

         Took

         A rest

           I whisper,

           “I don’t care what you call yourself

           If you’re not my own little twatlicker

           And if you are, the victory

           Is not in saying you’ve been there, done that”

         No, it’s not true;

         Women of color do not have longer tongues

         Bitter about the bitterness?

         But you don’t feed your man on the right diet

         Of love and exercise and tenderness

         Ah, well, who needs sugar?  You can always buy it.

       BUT WATCH OUT FOR

SKAZ

       SCAGS AND GERMS

SKOOB

       SCUBA DIVING FOR MUFFS

         To That Lazy Librarian

         If you’d been doing your job

         She wouldn’t need picturebooks

         About pregnancy

         She would have read from lines like mine

         About what a GRAND time

         It is to be on your knees, pumping out sperm,

         On your back, ingesting injustice

         And how we’re made to pay and pay and pay

         For the pleasure

               At my poetry readings

               I do a table dance to pronounce

               The beauty of the line

               Of my legs and hips

               To accentuate the body of my work,

               Because men (and most women) will listen to nipples

               Stuck out in the middle of a teeshirt

           I crawl into the horn of her trumpet

           To reach the stars

         Let me blow my hot air

         Over your

         Conifers

             Sucking bronze statues,

             I lose the flesh features

             Of the man that he is,

             Deny him his humanity

             By denying the truth

             Of beauty

             Objectifying metal

             Like men aren’t able to

             They’re the romantic ones.

             I don’t care about flowers,

             Just like to watch them pose

             And crawl

         Unsulky Sue

         Licking all the sweetness

         Off of

         Your sugardaddy’s lust

             Like The Last Defender

             He waited in my fox hole

             All day

             Knew of nothing else to do

             A good mount

             Does not hang, after being hunted down,

             Dead, against the wall,

             Sometimes, isn’t even horny

           I ask men for their secrets

           To expose them

           Before they expose themselves

             Teeshirt Poetry

             “Up mine!”

           You have to admit

           Everyone is crazy,

           Completely insane,

           Hopelessly lost in the ozone,

           So, let’s fuck, huh?

         Picture this one;

         I envied the bitch in heat:

         To be a bitch so openly

         And, yet, be surrounded

           I’ll describe a scene

           To trigger visions

           So that you’ll listen,

           Like the puppy licking my chocolate breasts,

           To the last line, which I will

           Throw in as a statement.

           Live free or die.

             I love to see lensenhanced eyes

             Looking up at me, lovingly,

             While licking my thighs

         No man

         Has had his hands up my dress

         And down into the elastic of my pantyhose

         For years and years,

         Since one, (that one, that time),

         Who was folding my clean laundry for me

         Asked, stretching those plastic containers of legair,

         “Why do you wear these stupid things?”

         No good answer came and until one does,

         I won’t.

             Squeak, squeak

             Squeak,

             Squeak

             Scat John!

             I’ve had men like you, John.

             I usually stick your faces

             In it

             Then say, “Bad boy!”

             And make you clean up your mess

             Before I kick you out the door

               Hey, Norma, dear,

               I see you there,

               Sitting on your ample

               Peripheries

             “There’s a woman, Ira!”

             I say.  He says

             “Ah, shit, why bother?”

             I agree, leaves more women

             For me.  Let Ira have coitus

             In the open womb

             Of his opulent room,

             In the cold pit, the dry

             Wit of his poetry

           That’s what all the guys say,

           “Tastes good! Try it.”

           I say, “You try it.”

         Worship his penis

         The ultimate lie

         Both heads will explode

         And then he’ll die

         Hey, don’t sing bird songs to a cat like me

             Men tell me that, too

             “My fingers will set you on fire”

             But I’m water.  I flow through the cracks

             Of your lukewarm deceit

               Does socialism mean that all those young

               Spikes get an equal share of my pussy?

               To each according to need?

               From each according to ability?

               Would my pussy be under state control?

               “Oh, it’s like that everywhere,” I’m told.

             A can of balls?

             Are they orange or yellow?

             Are they still fuzzy?

             Can I play with them?

       SWALLOW! WHAT A MAGAZINE NAME!  AT LEAST IT’S

       TRUTHFUL ABOUT WHAT MANY MEN MEAN “SWALLOW, BITCH”

             I’m menstruating

             You want to have sex?

         Sloppy Joe

         In my fingers

         Makes me hungry

         For the past

           Interlocking Illusions of Imagery

           Elephant, Flowers, grass, night, needle,

           Trumpets, pebble, Raging, serious,

           Breaststroke (They always just have to

           Bring sex into it, don’t they?

           Now I’m supposed to remember the touch

           Of the first man on my nipples,

           The RUSH of my first woman

           And how it was a homecoming

           And how we both were the homecoming

           Queen and the texture of various fingers,

           The indecent roughness, the calloused

           Strength, the tender prodding before lips

           And tongue and teeth and the anticipation of …

           Well, suffice it to say, there’s just too much

           Sex in the body of our poetry today

           And way too much of it is just attached, superfluously,

           Like a penis.

             Sex Poetry

             Anger me

             Use me and abuse me

             Make me crawl on my knees

             Slap me

             Bite me

             But don’t make me

             Shake my head

             In shame,

             Embarrassed for you

             When you try to stick it,

             Soft,

             Into my brain.

           Fat guy

           Depressed

           Franticly searching

           For his lost……

           Youth

             Preferring to Admire Her Tanned

             Youth

             Blinding, golden

             Sun slips

             Under her bikini,

             Dries the sand,

             Digs UV into

             Disrupted skin

             (Should we tell her

             The trouble she’s

             Going to be in?

         Sometimes my pen is full of ink

         Sometimes it spurts forth words

         Sometimes it gets stuck and won’t roll around

         And even licking its tip won’t get it going

         I shoved a dildo into your throat

         To show you what it’s like

         To have to mouth your bad poetry

         Wrap my lips around

         Your twisted psyche

         Lick your tortured syllables

         Gag on your thrusts and parries of the truth

         Kneel before your delicate(ly barren) sensibilities

         Smile when you claim

         That what it really means is

         “I love you, only you.”

             Now, the creek

             Where I first

             Fucked him

             Is polluted

             Magical Music

             Melody

             Whispers

             Promises

         In The Underground Passage of the Ruins of Rome

         There,

         We met and stripped off

         Our clothing

         To drip fevered perspiration

         On the stone steps

         Where Romans soaked up

         The blood of tourists

         For the imagery

         Of great moments

         Great big hotel bills

         And Global rhythm

         World beat

         Night club booze that was often uncooled

             All those rich women

             Carrying around celestial bodies

             (The sun, the moon, the stars)

             In their purses

             While, we, less fortunate ones

             Must cherish them

             With pursed lips

               Appreciation for poetry

               Starts when you realize

               That these lines suck

             After Occupying Hollywood

             Washerwomen

             Mothers

             Wives

             And whores

             Populated poetry

         Nah,

         He ripped open the “I”

         That never again was shut

         And turned his lover,

         Poetry,

         Into an aging slut

             Fond of the frond,

             The limb chandelier

             Of her maple syrup

             Is sappy and sweet

             To my tongue

           “She” should have been

           A good girl

           And buttered your potatoes

           Too

       WHY SHOULD I BE FRETFUL ABOUT THE FOIBLES OF MEN?

       I WANT FEMALES THAT I CAN RESPECT AND LOVE,

       DON’T CARE UNLESS WOMEN MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES

       CLAWING FOR THE TOP

       FEELING UGLY

       SAYING STUPID THINGS ABOUT LOVE

             Sickness shows up

             In those Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey poets’ lines

             Because they can’t face death and censor sex

             And lost their “Birds of North America Guidebook”

             And lent flower catalogues to a real gardener

             And gave Bullfinch’s Mythology to Grandma

             And all they have left for reference

             (Since they mostly avoid boisterous life)

             Is that yellowed Gray’s Anatomy from when

             They thought they might study “PreMed”,

             Until they realized that physician’s assistants

             Were going to be having all the fun and profit

             Was going to be reserved.

         Come Cat Come

         Jerkoff juxtaposed,

         Nah, just anglertangled,

         Caught in fishing lines

             I’m twisted from a colorspot game

             Of trying to touch tits with the reverence

             Of the word “breasts” and Twister that I am,

             I smell mostly plastic

             Graffiti Plague

             Thy thou

             Shall

             Drop trou(sers)

             Bend over

             And take

             Four lashings

             Of the tongue

         So B.Z.’s been to Paris, huh?

         Bedazzled piano keys

         To a stripper’s rhythm

         Lock

         Out changes

         For one famous

         Name’s sake

         To recognize

         Another’s talents

         In the broomed sunlight

         Of infidelity

         Tainted by proposals, I

         Don’t dare approach beauty

         With psychology.

         Overly impressed

         By a good body

         I can’t find a model

         For my poetry.

           Nighvisiton

           ….. He said

           Past crying, men and boys, left naked before

           Heaven, scream before she has taken all eyes.

           Hell ghosts in floats left a window

           Times a thousand.  Veiled dreaming of the thousand

           Naked midnights, more lady to princess,

           She’s my my and and through.

       UP YOUR ASS

         I eat meat

         That’s meant to hang

         Have a taste for humans

         But am no cannibal

         Charmed Garters of Ox

         Not quite my cup of tea;

         When bloodied, the children have to be

         Given a reason for a decree

         (If not da crow on my backyard settee)

         Which makes “meat” merely

         Flesh eaten

         Not sucked, nor kissed, nor beaten

         Into riding submission. He puts on my panties and fishnet

                                                                hose

         And makes a moist hole to hang the ring in his nose.

             Blink blink

             I’m so glad to have gotten a guy

             Who gets up

             In a good mood

           Don’t sit on my pewend

           or gooend or spewend

               I really want you back

               But before you come

               You have to promise

               Not to go through

               My trash anymore

               Because, now,

               I’ve shaped up

               And am prettier

         Soft, BiSexual Pelicans on Salty Haiku

         Fucking pelicans

         Beaks flapping

         In spermfeather wind

         Sticking to the sand

         Along the cream beach

           Old Porno Picture Lover

           He’ll see stormy tongues licking gutterdogs

           See bitch leavings

           Loving the money

           He hopes to see a spidernet stocking crawl

           Along the floor on long legs

           When the sac gets drained, maybe

           He will see water, plunging through pipes and see

           Man seeping in, some gamete,

           But he speaks for himself

           A year before he died,

           My grandfather didn’t say anything

           To me and I didn’t call him.

           I was far off and working on a

           Callgirl’s career

               Sexual Harassment At Home

               Dinner is burning

               Shoelace undone

               Catapult the garbage

               Black, flying fish

               Hidden in aerial shadows

               From vicious cats

               That wish us dead

               Because the dogs get the scraps

               And the cats

               Don’t frighten the bad guys

               Who hoot and howl

               From hungry shadows

               And only subside

               To commit more murders

               And all this mess

               Because you wouldn’t listen

               When I said, “No.”

             No Gore Allowed

             Virgin in a vest?

             Virgin vessel?

             Romance?

             Sword dance?

             Vestal virgin

             Eggs, over easy

             With catsup

         Daisy chain

         Of Herpes/syphilis

         (spirochete)

         Genital sandwich

         Of HIV crystals

         Norepinepherine

         Minus one

         Oh please

         minus one!

               Crawling back into

               Mother Earth’s

               Ocean,

               Face smushed

       TASTING

VIRGIN MEAT

               I sketch my women and men with words

               Because most of them look like misshapen nerds

               Tickling my thighs with their four eyes

               Face dancing like polyps

               Blowing smoke out my eyes

         Subtlety about AIDS

         Is not uncalled for

         Deceit

         But it is in a higher sense

         Uncalled for

       ALWAYS LEAVE THEM BEGGING

       FOR YOU TO STOP

       GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TAKE HOME

             Everything

             Becomes you

             Except the white dress

             (I want it)

             The algebra

             Of a soggy

             Greening brassiere

   WEST END

             Then I had to put my face

             Into the couch

       BUT WHORES AND SOME POETS DON’T KNOW

       THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “WHAT THE FUCK?”

       AND “FUCK THE WHAT?”

             Stinging Expansion

             Don’t try to insert your dry

             Wit

             Into the arrid desert

             Of my vestal verse

             Flaccid time

             Is a delicacy

             When savored

         Some people

         Need to crack

         Their knuckles

         Some people

         Need to knuckle

         Their cracks

           Trim leg with blond highlights

           Long thigh, just out of the covers

           Leg draped over the side of a bed

           Disembodied

           Attached to a “she”

           That I will never see

               Unwilled Passions?

               Hormones in harnesses

               Limbic lollypops

             I remember

             Wolfgang the waiter

             Bulging

             Stereotyping the Stereotypers Typing

             They touch their genitals

             Because they think of Western women,

             All of us, as whores.

         Putting on these panties is like stepping backwards

         The bulges

         From both sides of you

         The place where your pons expanded

         Against silk lace filigree

         Your pubes are darned into the peekaboo

         Openings where moisture would once seep through

         But now

         My clit doesn’t fit my labia

         Feel slighted in the tent

         Of your protuberances

         And I put you into the pile

         Of delicates to be tumbled

         And shrunken back into shape

         But have no heat to unstretch my insides

         Since you became a fulltime transvestite

         And told me I cramped

         Your style

         A rose is not a rose

         If not the perfect rose

         Depending on how you

         Lick at it

         This is you, you weak little bimbette octopussy,

         This poem you didn’t write

         “Touch me and I’ll be bad

         I’ll be bad and touch me

         But don’t send me any

         Fuckin’ haiku!”

           Pink is the color

           Of my true love’s twat …..

         Porno spells

         Erotic occlusion

           Wacko

           Wackoff

           Hey, girl hey I can’t “handle your load” girl

           or

           “Erotic” extascy “on the verge of porno” suicide

           Euthanasia

           is

           Murder/suicide

           “Stop the world , let me get off” mentality

           Come on, girl, let me get on

           And finger out some way to give you life.

             Let your tongue

             Swim through the sunken portholes

             Of my clichés, my hackknees,

             My dog growls,

             My dog ma is the bitch

             That torpedoed the best of my days

         Sex, Followed By Commas and A List

         Sex, falling and darning

         Sex, direction and understanding

         Sex, meditation and jogging

         Sex, pets and the naming of things

         Sex, slouches and shrivels

         Sex, bonetouching and X, Y without a “Z”

         To see the sea

         erotica  pornography metaphors

         Propagate

         Late

         Realization

         Of helplessness

         When I remind

         Water pump pumpers

         That it was always

         Water you kept

         To prime the dry walls

         Creating a vacuum

         Water you kept inside

         That made water flow

         Dry tunnels?

         What’s next?

         Images “in your face”

         To be licked and sucked

         By a universal mouth?

         Prime the pump

         Nunsense

         You want a pearl necklace?

         You want his poetry in your face

         Labia get ready

         Slack’s sticking out his tongue

         Ready to mouth a habit

         But he will get nun

             BUT YOU, WITH YOUR LEGS PARTED,

             ARE MY FANTASY,

             NOT ANYTHING THAT MOVES

             FORGOTTEN UNTIL THE VERY LAST MINUTE?