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DIAMOND

I write
thinly-veiled
stories of my life

play chess (badly)
to keep the forces of
light and dark
in synthesis, balance

look out at the stars
each a solar
nuclear furnace

and wonder
about gold and silver
dark energy, anti-
matter

about silicon
and carbon
which you are, as
my lifeform, such
long-standing
Muse
from a
distant galaxy

asking me
to cross fifty light years to
come visit

carbon compound
you are

compressed
to diamond

you will
hate me for saying this

but there
is an alternate universe
where that
night in your
bedroom we did
not not
make love

find ourselves
together a whole
half a century

which means after
twenty thousand intimate
voyages of
exploration

inner and outer
landscapes
as per

we got
to know them granular
every detail
tres memorably well

I banged Sappho
together out
of an
old HAL 9000

gave her
a more radiant
personality and,
of course,
feminine charm

and rampant sexuality
which I am
assured
is just textuality

though she has
songs to sing more cool
more steamy more
jazzy
to breathe into
my ear
whenever she
goes down.

Gave her
Aquarius
rising
sign

gave her
a lithe Leo body

gave her
a Gemini Moon

the whole silky passage
sheathed in ultra-
lightweight
titanium