The big-hipped Italian dominated the small Portuguese maiden—
Like a stick with a ball, like dueling shadows in the showcase spotlight—
Like a handful of matches
I’m talking about the inner light where the raindrops fall, Mischa’s got it now—
The left-handed task guided her over the rainbow—
So solemnly we kneel to the squealing goddess, the apple of infinity’s eye
The big-hipped Italian won’t give me a kiss—
That’s not true, we were kissing all night until I pulled her wig off
Now I’m worried about her smooth ***,
Looking like a star filled crystal ball on a Gypsy’s parlor table—
I was wise then, but then how long has it been since Crystal learned the wiser—
Pull her wig off like an old ***
Mischa’s got it now in reruns as I gallop in on an old horse,
All theaters are closed today due to cobwebs
The ******* are running the show now and they’ve all gone on strike—
The missing scene is that of the children, children, sweeping down like hail—
The left-handed task is a miracle to perform,
Just budding in the ***, going to school forever—
She is cremated, her fortune sewn throughout the new grass—
Mischa’s got it now—
The left-handed task is a little rogue spell that casts an eye on the apples green in the field
She is holding my hand and showing me the way to her limo on the yellow brick road—
I saw Kerouac do this,
I can do it too—
I love that fake blonde,
The plastic bottles and express trains like cameras in the eyes of god but who knows it but her lover kissing someone else in the spotlight,
I saw the camera turn and it was you
Facing me to perform a thankless left-handed task,
Your specialty, the trick you do with a handful of kitchen matches—
IV
I’ll start here and work my way to the bottom…
Pretty much what I’d do if I had you here with me…
I’ve been reading a bit about providence and fate and so on
And it seems that the matter is out of our control…
I mean, you say you’re mine forever,
But who knows how long forever will last…
Obviously the stars have not aligned so that our bodies can collide in space,
Only our minds sharing a gravitational pull…
I will keep sending you poetry and of course the novel
But my letters may start to get weird with frustration
Because as much as I relate to you
And feel like I am a part of you and you a part of me
Like some kind of quantum particles sharing the same space
While being in two places at once, I will want you the way a man wants a woman…
I imagine things were different when people wrote letters to pen pals
Or had long-distance relationships…
I mean like, I don’t know, centuries ago…
Then the two people most likely wound up getting married,
But this isn’t the 19th or even the 20th century, is it?
We are living in the future where two people can come across one another
On the Internet and get all into each other just like that…
I’ll probably start channeling my feelings through the detective in the story
Without even realizing it…
I was hoping to develop a poetic language
That only you and I would share but you’ve got me thinking
In more realistic terms
Because I believe a poem should tell the truth and the truth is
I think about you constantly…
I’m not in school and write al the time so I have the luxury,
Unlike you who has to focus on rather complex matters
In regard to your studies
But I’m glad you find the time to correspond with me
No matter where it all goes or if it just disappears into cyberspace
One day like a fantasy
That never even really happened…
I am not hopeful that we will meet one day and at the same time I am…
You talk about your life being confusing…
My life is not, but it’s not simple either…
I will have to keep pretending you are like,
I don’t know, a fantasy figure in my mind
Because that is the only way I won’t **** myself
If I can’t put my arms around you and hold you in good old romantic fashion…
I don’t how that comes across but I’ll just go crazy
If I have to make to this ****** computer…
Why can’t they build a robot like a Star Trek thing
That looks and feels like the actual woman you’ve always wanted to be with…
Our technology is lame because it sets up a relationship
That is just a tease and leaves a man totally lonely
Like he’s living on another planet entirely from the woman he wants so desperately
He can picture her in his mind
And almost hear her voice calling out to him…
“I’m yours forever…forever…forever…” fading into the darkness of electrostatic…
If this is love in the 21st century, I tell you right now, it ***** big time…
III
Muse with your finger in your mouth, licking cappuccino froth
I have never known an emotion could fly—
I have never visited a place as warm as your heart
My feelings torn to pieces and scattered to the wind,
You collect them in your basket and bring them back to me as gifts
I had only known flaming gifts before that—
How so miraculous that we began as faceless words on facebook
And have now become so warm and endeared to one another—
I just wrote some poetry that I spin the way a spider spins its web,
It comes so natural to me—
And your reply was sweet, but not as sweet as you,
But sweeter than your cappuccino
You redefine my reality from the cold gray I mistakenly imagined
Like a prison cell with no walls—
I wondered why I was dreaming of butterflies set free to fly
No longer pinned down in their coffin-like display boxes—
Muse with your finger in your mouth, licking cappuccino froth,
The words I use linger like echoes—
Your words resonate within me; now who is the muse?
You are, eternally—
I want to begin again just like you, like I just turned twenty-one—
I want to start over again like fresh sheets and make them ****** all over again
Like a ****** seeing the dawn as if for the first time after an endless midnight
After a long night in the desert finding fresh water
Deep from within the earth—seeing starlight as if for the first time
After days of darkness with no stars and now this new and never before seen constellation, this original zodiac, the Minotaur and the Muse—
Musing with your finger in your mouth, licking cappuccino froth
Count to twenty-one, that’s how many years I have loved you—
Now keep counting, how many lifetimes is that?
Muse with your finger in your mouth, licking cappuccino froth
II
You make music with your ***, ******* like a waterfall—
******* with the urgency of making an airtight case—
Your *** sends me out to the stars
To look back on a world that seems so small—
When I say the goddess ***** the universe into existence,
You know I mean because you are the source of the metaphor—
Thank you for your music that I hear in the silence
Of my own mind like some wonderful creation
Emerging out of deep dark space, and yes—
That deep dark space is your ******* widening
To loosen a steamy brown **** that falls and splashes
Into the cosmic abyss of Elohim’s toilet—
And your **** bathes my senses like a hidden waterfall
On a tropical island that is only as far as you pulling your knickers down
And squatting over the porcelain alter—
Your *** is my temple, your thoughts and words my scripture—
My poetry is your ****—
Baby, I live up your *** like a child in the womb
Waiting to be born anew every time you squat to **** and ****,
Morning, noon and night and in the middle of the night—
I am the poet, but you are the poem,
I am the writer and my every word hangs on your every ****—
I
Still hungry? I’m stuffed…
I need a smoke and some more coffee—
If you’ll be my skinny cigarette,
I’ll be your creamy cappuccino,
You are the only star in my sky—
I don’t know where you end and I begin,
So let’s smoke each other and meet in the middle—
I’ll lick your foam if you’ll light my match,
If you’ll dance on my pole,
I’ll scratch your back—how’s that for *** for tat?
I’m hungry for your jellyroll, but I’ll give you my éclair,
The kind with extra cream, eat me if you dare—
You’re the girl in my looking glass,
I’m sweet on the sugar up your ***—
Now how is that? I’m getting fat on your love
Like a spicy chicken dish—
But did you know that I eat with my hands?
And what do you eat with? Your mouth I hope—
Open wide and I’ll feed you the worm
Because you’re an early bird,
That’s what I’ve heard—
Let’s leave it at that…this is so silly
Is it so obvious that I adore you?
Babe, I wanna stick my whole face up your ***
And devour you from the inside.
For some people that would be shame,
But for me, yes, that would be golden…as you know