bbq sauce

somehow
you stumbled on the sidewalk
and your gargantuan paw
landed perfectly
in the fast food sized container
of barbecue sauce

Role play

I want something that you have.
The power to accept or deny. 
That ease at arriving late.
The adoration you get in return for 
Your strategic breaks from withholding.
Should we both be bad
And never learn any lessons?
Or
Should you change,
Like I've long-sometimes wished?
Or
Is it me?

Door

Pink glows and every street is from Paris
and it's the 1970s and everything is
a cross-fertilisation that gets me to the point and
self-directed, my agency is showing me
that everything I saw got logged and yes,
experience is back in a big way
and digestible, I'm slipping into the week in review.
I can blithely summate tapping out
tropes on a calculator.
I look forward to myself looking backwards.

Why I really need Life Insurance

For the tenth straight week

in a dimly lit room

Ray with gray hair

and gray eyes

asks me where I stand.

The tax benefits are amazing

and it’s a great way of diversifying.

But isn’t life insurance

for people who have kids?

Isn’t it callous for him to badger me

when he knows I’m very single

and very childless.

What one will do

for a pithy commission.

Or is he playing the long game?

Will he

charm me

with his gray hair

and gray eyes

hitch his wagon

to my dimly lit star

milkymoon me

die me

in a scuba diving “accident”

use the payout

for a real vacation  to Cancun

with a 20 year old coed?

(How my mind works these days).

The truth is:

I eat potato chips and

peanut butter cups

and potato chips

for lunch and dinner.

I sleep with men

who have nothing

to lose 

or gain

from me.

The truth is:

I pray for alien abduction.

I sometimes

forget to look both ways.

I howl at the moon

when people are looking.

I envy those in real pain.

I make hungry eyes with 

the crazy guy on the subway.

I get giddy when my plane

hits turbulence.

The truth is:

He’s just a good family man,

looking out for me

and my kin.

That’s where we stand.