"Good Olb Buk Pills"

fact

careful poetry
and careful
people
last
only long
enough
to
die
safely.

***

a beginning

when women stop carrying
mirrors with them
everyplace they go
maybe then
they can talk to me
about
liberation.

***

dog

a single dog
walking alone on a hot sidewalk of
summer
appears to have the power
of ten thousand gods.
why is this?

***

i met a genius

I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty.
it was the first time I'd
realized
that.

***

oh, yes

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.