Saturday, September 5, 2009

My Dirty Valentine

In the late 70’s
I’d get high
write a poem
jack off
the usual routines

masturbatory prose
pouring out in
long streaks
while the real poem
was in the coming

what secrecy they share
still to this day
like when someone asks
what you write and it’s as if
you said ejaculation.

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