A heart solid enough to love
Not yet strong enough to withstand breaking
Body of a woman
Mind of a child
A soul divided

What am I?

The mirror splits in two
Glass reflects
Jaded blues
And a steel smile
Glass reflects
Precious purity
And blind innocence

I walk along the edge of
Something unknown
The line ends soon

What awaits me
At the end?

WELCOME TO THE MOON
THE COWBOY* says as he walks into one more bar before heading further west
He sits down at the bar in the Bronx and laments the sorry state of
LOVE and her love the POET
How small and sickly they've become, he groans
He tips the brim of his hat further downward to spy a couple sipping wine
The MAN and WOMAN
Who *finally discover the seriousness they need to chase out all of the monsters and ignorant ghosts that are invisible and chew
THE COWBOY rocks back in the stool to contemplate the unrequited love of a LONELY IMPULSE OF DELIGHT he remembers a womangirl who couldonly see one side of him and so gave him THE RED COAT so he wouldn't forget the importance of child hood to a freeman.
BETSY walks in
and he bids her a
**WELCOME TO THE MOON

The isolation is what's so scary
Trapped in my own world
Prayers to Mother Mary
Please send a womangirl

But I live alone
Dream of foreign trains
Maybe Heidelberg
Surely La Mancha, Spain

I like cucumber sushi
Vegetarian tacos too
Pita bread and hummus
Chips and Mountain Dew

Board games with my brothers
Phone calls with my sons
Poe's Annabel Lee
Longfellow's Day is Done

I wanna do something for the animals
Something outta this world
Something freaky strange
Something womangirl

Zephyr and Arapahoe
Quayzar at the Lake
Black birds soar above me
The Tyger of William Blake

Deer on my drive home
Huskies on my walk
Chapel of the Cross
At Timeout we talk

               Eagles!

O! the isolation
trapped in my own world

in my solitude
no woman, no womangirl

maybe just as well
black hair soft and curled

Did you see the Phoenix Lights?
Mythology unfurled?

               Showtime!