So it goes you go lover

So it goes you go lover you escape escaped escapade
a spade like this archaeology to dig into the earth
for your subconscious and the fate we share is what
we see before tears its heart the world is apocalypse
stretching its neck for the ax the ax coming down and
sawing its head off -- "what head?" you might ask, and


I say Lover, lover, we speak this way turn that and
sense the girth of things their height width and depth
a woman's smile months ago



flood me in the heart vessel a trickle of love down the veins
at this time with her measure at the move and rate
of things we might just find it taped to the narrow end
of the strait of gulfs and don't give me no guff about
it see . I m ringing the hotel up right now the phone dangles
detective arrives a true arriviste is your smile
waits for him to acknowledge it lending the moment
its year of tenderness. Ask him for love, she says,
with her smile over yeared and yarn of look,
like this the living reach
round the cattled boat and trestle moment
whirligiged at a piece of memory _ Yes, this
is what we say in apartments across the big city
throbbing in its seasonal joy.



Round and round we go with your smile
past pew and prayer mocker a mockery of laughs
borrowed wit its satiated instant
she is narrow with brass if the cantor is right
while stealing a look at my neck throat
white with a glow of libidinous look.




Gruff lover I am for your mildew stone,
Pity she isn't the only one who wants my name.
Over the boat and past the Keystone cops we keep clopping
horses dust making hazy by our boat, and don't give me
no malarky. Make up my mind, will you. She covered the veil
of her look deep in a lie, and turned away from glances
I was sending off the wall of the sky, and the glance
of the sky riding the bus roared down the road, hefted
up our body shared in the weak notice of our fantasy.


Not a record but a truth of our night, and day, riding.