Love Comes Cheap

I don't know
who you are.
The sex has
been fantasy
blued.  Have drug,
will travel;
is the mantra
of modesty:
the world is
so big and I am
so small.
Remains in
quotations.
Do you ever
cry to the stars
while slicing
a tomato
dinner timed?
The moon keeps
watch.  And I
keep tidal time,
shells at my toes.
Drifting and
hoping a riptide
takes me far, far away, fromallofthis.

Smoker 31

The ease.  Speaking to you through tendrils of
smoke is a thing without appropriate value.

That's all lawyer speak.
I made a mistake

to reach this point.  Several times over.
Unavoidable in it's nowness

in ways avoidable before.  Time is
short as hell.  Eye to eye.

Short as it has ever been
I will feel it tomorrow,

for now,
can we go through the motions?

Gummy Bear (the heater)

Chewy is one thing.  Soft is another and the difference

is alleyway hilarious.  "You must really think that I am

dumb."  Conflicts of interest and anyone can pull

a trigger.  The gummy bear here is not the one

that stepped out of doors, making homes of bars

and startled that someone noticed and did not

take voicemail for something more than the stunt.

Okay.  Words are large and easy and a fist is

small and hard, so words can be on

a fine exchange rate where they may blister, otherwise,

in the heat of brain matter vee brain matter, like.

Okay, gummy bear.  Bear teeth drawn and all

gummy like socks could be forgotten if someone

did not tell you to put them on, things roll.

Things roll and long walks are taken and half

the walk is picking out a spot to bury a body

on both sides of the conversation but planning is a thing

learned and someone has not been to school

yet and benefit of the doubt is running too long,

decision time coming up sharp and the difficulty

is figuring out exactly how to end the song.

There's no heater, but no time for broken bleeders.

Alibi's are harder to come and frankly it's running thin

on fun and my friends are steady waiting and I'm done

with straight placating so I'll end this conversation,

we will walk back conversating and I will call you a cunt and

you will buy me a drink and the gummy bear will walk on

because I can't yet afford to bring the heat.