Bicarbonate Of Sex
The barnacle’s a hermaphrodite
(I’m not making accusations)
hitched for life to rock or rust
it filter feeds
and after a period of timeif male enough
it extends an organ five times the length of its shell
and visits immediate neighbours
until it finds one feeling particularly female
foolish to suggest a mollusc feels anythingthis comes from a tv documentary
and the narrator is excited
without providing detailed explanation
so while you imaginea thirty foot penis groping around the room
trying to determine who swings which way
I’ll worry what we’d do if we couldn’t dance.
Are your eyes natural?
You are the most fluid eyes I have ever seen.You are the ocean in the Virgins.
I sail catamarans.
(clear)
You cause a constellation above my bedeveryone falls for the same old line
I think you are crazy
if I know you aren’t true
and my hair is natural.
A friend is told
in Cleveland men buy women drinks
to which he replies
in Toronto men buy women bowling shoes
if there’s no bowling
where do we first date?
hitched to a rock and flailing legs
there’s a little blue pill for impotent menand in France an orgasm pill for women
one day we drop them in the same glass of water
and stir
problems arise
the male dissolves before the female hits bottom
the glass leaks and we hardly know each other
good thing I believe everything you sayas you roll your eyes past stars
where I have never been
