2/19/26

POEM - Lake Vista Ln

Nicole on top of me

Titans of rock and roll below

Every coward is unafraid of dying

because they’re terrified of being alive

Then there’s this killer who hopes

he’ll never feel the need to kill anyone

Better to love your way through their world

in the hungry embrace of a hundred housewives

Not everyone is replaceable, and it’s

only replaceable people who believe

the more commonplace cliche

I won’t let light-eaters keep me in the dark,

for the heart needs veins

Juliet from Oklahoma?

Oh, that is a better man’s lifetime

The wild horse ahead goes all

‘carried torch’ along the cliffsides

Wonder if I can teach it to swim?

My god keeps dumbfoundedly saying, “My god.”

Now everything must be questioned

The mournful mind recycles star-shine

So, yes and no on letting go

That big breakthrough is broken

at the next bend, unfolded

Her river, thus, is newly inviting

No wonder we are now arriving at square 2.0

Me on top of Nicole