Millennial Valentine

Actually I’ve been preparing
for the next millennium
when the richness of time and life’s
unpredictable moral surfaces
will have separated out
the radical curmudgeons and the
bouncing balls from the specific
eternities the gas station’s
plastic flowers from the quaint
seasons preserved in minds
when slowly the moon will have come back
inside us to illuminate our feelings from within
which we’ll call morning
new morning and new night
and sex the last thing to come
will have been the first thing to go
everyone pregnant with themselves
alive in themselves or not
reflecting the sunlight or not
you will see it in our faces
you will see in our suffering
our shared hunger as true friends or not.