Amaryllis in the Spring
because it's a pure & innocent thing
before a summer of rockets,
debris of hope—
the Age of Discovery,
the Punishment of Lust
an intravenous poison of decline forms
the new math: eye value minus itself
in waltz-time the body is radio-active,
there is no such thing as labor saving machinery
ask Garbo or Monroe, very happy one moment,
the next there was nothing left
their machines did the heavy lifting,
but one was not the loneliest number