55 years ago Mark shared
our secret desires fires
we ****** on back stairs
at Swallen's party pyres.

Borrowed a Fat guy bed
where we got his strife
Lust pretended Love.
Abandoned my life.

I could've been at his deathbed. Maybe offered
      some solace and comfort and sent him off
      with a proper "God's speed"!
      I Declined an Invitation to My Father's Death.
      I might've played right into his hands and now
      guilt plagues me as I listen to sad songs and
      write sad poetry and hope I remember to call my son
      tomorrow so that maybe he'll be at my death bed.

Time is flat
A Carousel
ride forever
a life I dwell.
No heaven
just reruns
live it again
the same sin.

Romance is born of pretty lies
   and poor judgement and alcohol
   and low bar light and juke box
   siren song swaying our hips in
   surrender as we dance to a cab
   and feed our weakness at 3 am
   in a bed of grand hotel roses.
   We wake up at noon in thorns.

Birth to Death is life.
On a pinball machine
bounces off bumpers
into brand new clean

gone a new you
no stretch marks
summer of love
**** in Eden parks.

I did French leave
I abandoned you
I went to Boston
built a life new.

Years ago I said
Just a dog dead.
Didn't have a soul
down memory hole.
Years ago we did It
West Side Story ****
Tony and Maria vows
forever eternal now's.
We made our Kate
in a Mustang date.
Years ago somehow
we fell to our fate.
We adopted black
Jack Daniel's broke
into our own flack
and we all awoke.

Chemistry and Biology. Bang!Bang!
We call it Love! It's really Lust!
Pregnant you glow until you grow.
Be my Valentine 'til Death or Dust.

Taken with Cindy Issack from work.
Marriage counseling. Friend events
week nights confused unused a ****.
I'm passed off to a shrink for bents.

He sees me in a panic and then ******.
Non addictive friend for 15 numb years
guilt controlled by my shield from sin.
We had carte blanche **** without fears.