Whether you come or go
considering more coffee
or Excedrin with caffeine
as if alacrity is
what one needs
to get through this.
Whether you knew
of the secret virginity I bore
those times form Eden
to Baltimore; Eden to Baltimore.
Some were summery and the
glasses were obscured with sweat;
some laced with silicate dust
after the visit,
from the longspent
petulant volcano,
who would erupt for you
if that were what you wanted.
Stifled, lifted up;
if this is what you want,
then this is what you want.
If there is a fairer sex,
you aren't, holding your bicep
so your arms are the bottom of a trapezoid.
