belligerent eyes beg wholesale
submission, blushing undress

a swanky disillusioned dream
a tacit fleshy mass of need
a fierce card of calculating
want

we’re sturdy old twigs
you and I

curvy ******* of want
are busy straws of dull
cynical fat smoke

our lives murky inventions,
you and I,
sincere but sneaky

let’s not trouble the tides
of our unarmed vessels of
love

let's forget