I May Be a Slut But at Least ...
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leave now and when the garbage goes out you'll be in it
the handkerchief I used to you-know-what is in the mail.
I may be a bastard but at least I'm not married you slut
all you have on me is a story a nut getting stuck up
my five-year-old nose at least I got it out before my ride came
Being married to a slut and having bastard kids
is nothing like Adam saying to Eve “You better stand back,
I don’t know how big this thing gets.”
In one of my more erotic daydreams Beethoven comes
to clean my house. He’s in ruffles and a too-small suit
shock therapy hair he bangs on the piano and says Ach! a lot
the duster sits across his lap he plays one-handed using the other
to bat the cat away. He doesn’t clean a thing just grabs
my ass on the way out I can feel his calluses.
You bastard I'm not married least I may be but a slut
so you're home in bed I'm poking a fire with my giant walrus
sitting on the couch you left me with a ticket at the
fair you left me for the zoo didn’t you know
I can keep you behind a cage it's here in my ribs
I will set up a hammock for you throw in some kids
Least married I may be, not a slut you bastard I'm after you
like a hurricane coming in for shore but like some storms
I'm off course and I hit a Canada cold front.
Goddammit I have a slut's sense of direction everyplace is home
you have a married man's gypsy heart you bastard child
we are both like a villanelle, complicated, repetitive, hard to fit
Sometimes I take it all good bad ugly and finally I sleep
Thick green leaves fall on a summer morning huge rain drops
hit a warm shoulder there’s a shiver of a woman with
brown knees carrying a beach towel to the park and walking
towards her is a man she's never met will never say more than
an absent Hi to and forget his face immediately
this man who could love her picks up a leaf
this man goes home and calls his brother who
died a week ago he could use a slut about now the un-
married bastard his kids don’t call anymore
he could use that kind of firm Beethoven hug any kind
of hug -- who wouldn’t want any kind of strong embrace
from anyone anywhere on a day like today?