sitting here @ JavaNet
sucking down the bottomless Cape Horn
I overhear two guys with ponytails
jawing on about Robert Bly

in the meantime i’m in Russia
checking out the Pushkin Museum
webbing my way to oblivion
and wiping cream cheese

from my chin
I am online and ornery
eating my way from place to place
clicking in a frenzy

my ass is propped on a pillow
so I can drive
the leather and mahoganey
battling it out for my gentlemen’s club

attention, and I hear them say
something about L.L. Bean
and a lesbian woman they know
whose stories capture the hearts

of children and draw them in
like honey
and why not ask Hannaford Bros. to sponsor
while a Rembrandt washes my screen...

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