a blue violin plays instrumental come-ons with flamenco hints, various pleasures merge, a three lane highway becomes a county road with slow and steady the unposted speed limit I am well and full accompanied and accomplished
and I am alone
my hands laurel my temples, my head is crowning, laughing from the pleasure given to me to give to me, snare drum solitary keeps my time, my two palms say psalms, guttural and cultural, my emissions, emptying my commissions,
and I am alone
a-poem came with this morn to mind, and pleasure me, it did; music and flesh, words and tissue untested but harmonizing, hands prancing on strings of sterling silvered guitar body mine, shouting glory glory, am risen am fallen, salved, soothed,
I am alone, refreshingly happy, my poem *******
and and and both of us will die in due course, dead unread, alone together