I don't believe it when they package 4.8%
it's simply nonsensical to be that exact about delirium
as off putting as a promise laid bare
as easily sought as the ring on the wrong finger
as fought as a woman tied down
or up?
Is that how the story normally goes?

Why don't you tell me
under candle lit dinners
in back alleyway racks
where the only thing hung
is what could have been
and what you keep yourself up at night about

as I ride your slick red rimmed eyes
with mine, memorializing
the observant eye caught into a trance
the sublime vs. her abyss
welcome, Odysseus.