choking on childless mothers
boyfriends and girlfriends
hesitate to divest their portfolios
solid again just as we melted
your crying eyes shine
like shadows on the moons of Jupiter
i am a camel like lucifer was
look for me in the quieter neighborhoods
i am a used car salesman
branded in the carcass of another
frozen like chosen pieces of dinner
to be reheated and thawed
at television meetings
and sincerely beaten
for syncopated rhythms
still slivers of love survive
lovers die
lovers birth again
hovering in between their skin
Jupiter returns at 35
like reruns of nick at nite
or reunions of the blind
block parties and violet staircases
thank god for elevators
and basements child