Janie Huzzie Bows

thesis: strength endures voids and emptiness.

strength constructs no homes (antithesis:

if your house leaks then on swollen days

in sullen seasons there is no home for you)

there is endless repetitious strength

enduring endlessly there is this paradox:

strength is the void endured and consequently

synthesis: enter everybody's anti-hero cross-eyed,

sees crossed eyes cross-eyed but looking in his eyes

sees straight, sees sick, sees something monstrous

something insect, sees this philosophic frippery:

that is sees man

endures in his mirror that is self-doubt,

his left arm being his right arm

his left eye sees his right eye

and no eye sees his nose right.

synthesis: enter naked the hero's fists blazing

won't put up with that mirror is laughing

smashing his left hand smashing his right hand

breaks his wrath--

enter the dumb smile of blissful blindness or

dumb sadness belting down a drink

enter an angel's colorful rags and bells

enter a man in colorful sights and smells

enter blonde beauty dragging a bulging jock.

there is the entrance where they enter through

the black hole with crescent thin edges

the animal den the fish smell the ocean motion

there is women's strength endures the stretch

forty-eight hours of warm pain

two hours of sharp pain around mid-night

last sight the tippy-toppy veins of its head

bled and blood and body and push push Push--

and the tide goes out,

enter sleep.