soft-spoken
on my mother’s side
A
vaga bond with my father
also, on his side
his hair! It’s as thick as a fog
In
the muddle of April
Not grey, or parted with a gun, my father's hair
but they both have young faces
After
all these years
opposite
like a magnet dipped in any kind of oil
one is a life-liver
one has a liver that still complains..
These nights
I try to find my addiction
but I can’t find it
is it that I love holes in my socks?
or that I just need love?
and is that so bad?
I think what stops my addiction,
is my desire to search,
through a tomb
or through a synagogue in Rome
That
crumbles like it was once a catacomb
in my bachelor days
But
I know I’ll have to sleep soon
and take a trip through my dream
where I’m counting foreign money on a magic cloud,
and teaching a monk how to read Canadian
and he just laughs and laughs
so I laugh
Until
we shatter red hot glass
and the earth moves quickly
out from beneath us
signs point
back to reality