Demanding happiness
requires standing
in an endless line
hoping that
something good
waits ahead of you.

  ~mce

What you love best
will **** you
and you will smile
as you die.

  ~mce

We crash through
Class V relationships
with no life jacket
emerge waterlogged
and disintegrating
only to blunder through
thorny undergrowth
while searching empty
pockets for some
kind of map
to this always
foreign territory.

Sing me your pain, Love,
and I will sing you mine.
Together, we will make
a harmony of dissonance.
Lift your voice with me.
Let us make a song
against the darkness.
However brief and fragile,
the melody belongs to us.
What more can there be?
What more is necessary?
  - mce

Women mostly like
to roll around
in the bushes
with Cain,
but they end up
at the country club
marrying Abel.
Bad boys win
the battle;
good boys win
the war.
  - mce

Just once,
I would like
to make love
in a joyfully
tended garden
on a promisingly
hot spring day.
Sun warmth,
soil warmth,
woman warmth:
the best meaning
of back to the earth.

Anyone can
be a Hero
for five minutes;
it's minute six
that tells the tale.
  - mce

Somewhere along the road,
I must have lost my heart.
Should you happen upon it,
(but only if it is
not broken
and still beating)
please mail it to this address.
  - mce