street lamps

yes

there were street lights but not too many to make a difference

and i don't know who's in charge of the street lamps or who has

control of the person who controls the street lamps but they

weren't that bad although the night was bad in my mouth every

time i passed the lot on the way to anna's house

what's left over

you are intimacy

you are the future

in a black baby doll dress

on a wet hotel bed

the shower's gonna go

and we're gonna be gone by 10 a.m.

but i love you

i've stopped counting

you could be 13 or 17

infested with menstrual blood

and what's left over 10 hours left

we're leaving the outerspace of our collective holy land

the honey from your nipples

and poetry of sensual acts of selflessness

the last scene

you are the third tower

you are between towers

solitude your foundation

the boy staring you down after orgasm

overlap the unfucking with the fucking and you have nothing


 you say that in your new place

 i compliment the unfucking

 although you claim to have never been unfucked before

 i think you're lying

 "don't mess with the lyers" someone once said

 but there really is no avoiding it

 so i lie i lie between you and the bed

 and think of this guy whose sister i slept with

 and how he doesn't know it makes me think

 of unfucking her in my bed my head

 is the palace we build where ever we kiss

 and here we kiss within the holy nest of skin on lying skin

 on unfucked skin we fuck and then sleep

 in the skin we are given

nothing the cops would find funny

if you wanted to come on my face

you should have said so

i'm sick of smelling beer

in my food on your tongue

this is how you kiss

this is where my thighs could lie

and what position

80 miles an hour we're driving

backwards from dessert to the hotel lounge

and jason talked bukowsky dressed in money

tom talked car lessons for insurance

assure me four months worth (and then some) because

and although my pen is dry my eyes are wet and burning

there's semen swimming in my eyeball

and my contact fell in the toilet