XXXIV
The Chat
Come on then my boat hat chatty talking. Surely Monsignor, a mere morsel of them
Retains the griffons? Your skull shows its age
And all the energy runs out of me the plumber Fred Astaire ten-seven beat over yew trees
In a swordfight at the gate. I’m a mathematician.
Lord that these mine dog fingers should caress Lois as she goes
Ta-ta falling like summertime from her head and your last Dos Equis
And eating when yer mammy’s main senator slips a duplicate going away party
Yesterday’s paper laid on the main course of lecturing exes x’s
I see my woman in in a spirit. She her face
Comes late then laying aim between
Tree huggers and the friends of freon, cooped up together in a gated community. Your remarks on father’s darts
And on the Justice of the Peace’s only feet mollify my headache
The air inside the submarine until undone laughing at us for smoking
Swimming behind the novelist while his brown body dives deeper.