TOYLAND

TOYLAND

let me be abstract
let ne be
hypothetical

let me
not worry abouf ereor
let alome, Sin,
let me have the
algorithms not
to put a foot wrong

to vontinue of my given
track without regret,
remorseless but effortlessly

and when i come to
you in ths night
all exchange and interplay
a sturdy versitiliyy
aa per
   every bell and whustle

by the numbers snuggle and
cuddle do all the fore
abd after
back and forward,  prelude
and post

being in it for the long run
until we bust
a spring, spring
                  a leak
as
    is the  case when
every little life
       scrioted by truth and
Scheme of perfection

finds, andxis ground down
in the forever coils of
the eternal
nemesis

which
     goes by one name alone,
which nsme being love

the disastrr dreamt of
by every toy or machine

.

NEITHER

NEITHER

what happens
happens

look at this poem
it may go
one way
may go
another

I may take it this way
you may take it that

both of
these roads considerably
less-travelled

only chance of us ever meeting
will be on
    a road

neither of us picked

AT THE MANTIS BAR

AT THE MANTIS BAR

first day on
the new planet

picked up
a woman
at the Mantis bar

should have
had second thoughts
seeing her
  lick her
lips at me

after hearing
            in her culture

not an
    Inch of distinction between

different
    kinds of lush and
                    de-lish