What do you do
when you lose your life’s love
one it took years
To find
that one
Find another
I don’t have that long
Get a dog
I had a cat
Be happy
How

What do you do
when you lose your life’s love
one it took years
To find
that one
Find another
I don’t have that long
Get a dog
I had a cat
Be happy
How

I laid down with you
you were naked
as though you had planned it
I wanted to spit buttons
to the far corner of the room
you said no and no
so I lay there between the sky
and a salt lake.

I walked in dropping smiles
She picked up one
A diamond ring
in a room of rubber gaskets
wanting to be cock rings
Teeth tough
Eyes staccato
Movement made easy
More material on
and less material
A blood knot line
better than
can I buy
Reeled in near rocks
not kind to hope.