Tags
alienation, Apollo 13, art, charcoal, industrial, metafictional, metapoetic, poem, poetry, punning, Reader, sex, writing
DOWN TO
someone charcoaled
my picture
of the worldafter which
things quickly
Went retrogradefound myself Apollo
thirteening through
industrial gray atmosphere
trying to
get backthinking
if I flame out
here it’s all down to
my failure to exorcise what
they call magical thinkingthis you and I discussed
at length in bed
which was strange in itself
you being a
character in
my novelor me in yours
who is exactly in
whose head
difficult to negotiate
when
speaking of re-entry
couldn’t be
less metaphoricyour bed, my bed,
our bedso full of charcoal
easy and hard (as
homonym would
have it) not to
exaggerate or
simply lie in itdown to you
lover, reader
to
ménage with us
masterfully, mistressfully
help us out of this mess