WOMEN ON MEN
my friend Chryss
writes about men:
too attentive, not attentive enough,
too serious, too frivolous
too this too that
till we weep with hilarity when she says
“I really feel sorry for them!”
and how her book should be entitled:
“Some Poems That Explain Why I’ll Live Alone
for the Rest of My Life”
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a woman’s silent stare,
waiting for you to do something,
something RIGHT!
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Rilke had ancestors tossing down coins
as applause from heaven for lovers who’d learned
to be acrobats of love, and soar.
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