Temperance,
if you are the prime virtue
in the grey heather raglan
tee shirt, thin from much good use;
small distances would still
seduce you from equanimity.
Small obtuseness then.
When one love breaks
and then another.
Chastity and her brothers
are juiced up and salivating
—is like Virgil in late summer.
If they could have coffee
in the cave of all temporal knowledge
then they could have coffee.
If they could rustle up some
white face paint
then kabuki.
