Opinion columnist
in my private war pen and sword
come together to dance
like a desire not to offend
and full-on evil
so grey this night this day
that had little to astonish me
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Fruitcake recipe
take forty brass apples
pork and beef fat
pears like cold little trumpets
teach them the discourse
of rot and sin and supper
Khayyam redux
a bottle of wine and a book
to my great joy I could not finish
either little world
heaven make me full
and be my cellar
Reformed
to kiss to curse to lick a toad
to kill everything in my sleep
missing my cards
I forgot where I belong
but my shirts grow well
on nothing but wind
Micturition
with what
freedom I piss
this rainy night
Kitchen confidential
the cook’s whole dance
is with her clock
and we go to dinner
in order to be surprised
we do not consider
who is fleet enough
to supply our delight
Megalomania
old news is about me
all of it
superficial as I know
myself to be
my vanity and liberty
as drawn in the Times
my many bad years
grieved at or pissed upon
and any reverse
not fit to print
Boxman
with a box of carpenter’s tools
I will make many boxes
one for serpents
another devils
and one like a suit I might dance in
Package holiday
amber thoughts furnish
a glass discourse
greed for sun
comes with company
we pass the whole day
only being there
consider how to live
down a mine
Terpsichorean
angry at my crooked foot
the dancing moon
in my glass
Vacant
nothing to signify nothing
I make a meme
simple yet right
like an evening in the country
Cravings
nature fashioning teeth for flesh
teeth for teeth
teeth for love
white horses
going and coming
lessen the distance
to joy
or the odd scotch
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