BET YOUR SWEET ASS

BET YOUR SWEER ASS

Your paradigm is slipping
was always slippery

can see
bare flesh, stuff exposed

wondering
who schooled you in
this philosophy, laid
it out
on a platter it
would seem

so let
me put this hypothesis
to you now

whether
truth be whole or
(Boltman brain territory)
it be severed

you eschew the wisdom
forget the transparency

force down
that blue pill
without a second thought

knowing, not knowing
who or what
on top

who on top
and who at the bottom
(in or out
in terms
of innuendo, sauce for the goose
in terms
of double entendre)

either way (feeling your way
in building your
perspective upon it)

the symmetry here, the super-
position, sweet Thomas Kuhn,
pure paradise

your paradigm
no longer slipping
must have got the hang.

STILL TO ENJOY

STILL TO ENJOY

bliss
to blitz

that move too fast
for the human eye

proved
irresistible

so we mapped that
mythology across
a board of
squares
   with twice
sixteen pieces

bliss, there like
excess, success, redress
               piling on the
                            sibilants

recalculating the vectors
of numbers
six
   and nine (dividend when
six
   goes into nine,
nine goes into six)

these are the positions
figure out
the road
to victory

how
    taking that poisoned pawn
leads to double development

crushing
    annihilation, horns
closing in
tight encirclement

the Mongol army
leaving cities burning

women
still to enjoy
  

INCH PERFECT

INCH PERFECT

needed an inch
of space
to write
in this place

come up with a killer
thought experiment

to out-think Einstein,
Oppenheimer,
Wittgenstein
     and Kurt Godel

in which
we could be
travelling on a light beam
falling
   in an elevator

or simply lying on
a blanket at night
cataloguing
pin-pricks
of light

which being
Sun-sized, planet-
sized
   the size of whole galaxies
much bigger
than emojis

thinking here of the
distant and diffident
terminally inscrutable not
the smiling, laughing,
leering,
    utterly idiotic and
totally brainless kinds

and you on the blanket
sharing my space-time, in
fact
   our shared
and joint creation

waiting for
     true feedback,  the cosmos
out there
in here
      to detail its cracks, to
show its face

to make
this a night of serious surprises
with we
   two so

tuned in
how could it fail to be
   
   

ON YOUR BIRTHDAY

ON YOUR BIRTHDAY

come to me
on your birthday
Gemini girl

I shall make you
my eternal celebrity

teach you the meaning
of the word “celebration”

make sure you
feel every vowel
every consonant
in your heart
and
  every other part

doing your native sign
of the twin me Castor
you Pollux

from dawn on the day
to dawn the next morning

SIGN

SIGN

I want  to take you
on a bed
of wine coloured
roses

my lips wanting your
brown skin
beneath them
for all of
human time

and though
I have not yet
found you

and still have
to persuade you
to commit
to this enterprise

an enterprise in which
we die and die and die
forever and ever
constantly rising
constantly reborn

for which the shade of deep burgundy of
these flowers
           has become
of
this desire and
would be passion
its
  eloquent sign.

NIBBLE

NIBBLE

nibble
nibble
nibble

cit the wrong wire
armed the system
the count down

going
crazy

we both doomed
whatever explosion
between us

whatever
volcano
about to
erupt

magma
upon magma
superhot caldera

no hope for us now
started with a nibble
a single, fatal
total nibble

here is a desire
unleashed

devourimg
everything in its path