They’re right, you know

when a revelation comes

I get so high I float

dusted, as I was

sex is my universe

mine and love’s alone

try not to think

so as to get

but what’s there to life

if not to be allowed

the fancies of a consumed mind

to wander the carnal realms?

to be led into a gilded room

drawn with red velvet

filled with the dream music

of twenty black-clad

ex-suburban rebels

and not to let

the thought of just one

scruffy and bare

backed on the bar

to enter my consciousness

is asking too much

even at my worst

I am not getting

what I think I want

sometimes it’s hard being thankful

getting what you need