Marlowe!  Dark and dangerous Kit Marlowe
Whose hooded eyes, like a subtle serpent’s, held
In mysterious charms Hero, and too
Leander, perhaps, in the ways of night

And in the councils of foul Walsingham
Where innocence and guilt knew not each other
Through sly reptilian tangles of false oaths
Among the pale queen’s writhing coils of shame

Beneath which altar, then, or perhaps none
Was the famous reckoning paid, and done?

Half way from yesterday
and today is that far
from tomorrow.

Last night in dream though it
feels like it
could have been real
when the sun set on the night
and the devil made his move
making the deal
marking his seal on the unwilling
and unwary
I met Mary again
on the banks of the Thames.

we chatted of things and ate apple pie
under the wings of a Bankside sky.

it's been a long time
she said
aye
replied I
and we held
one another
under the wings of a
Bankside sky.

I misquoted Marlowe
To my girlfriend;
Whose name happens
To be Helen:
Honey, I said,
You've a face
That's sunk a thousand ships.
She fired.