Gay Noses (and other queer appendages)


bound to be blake's

Muse! MUSE!



Muse! MUSE! Where are you?
My thoughts are all awry, scattered
in the bombsite basement of my brain:
bits of love and nature, odd refrains,
and here and there the fearful straining
urge to verse...as though it mattered!

Muse! MUSE! Where are you?
My trust in you is gone, shattered
like the trodden sonnets in my heart:
threnodies of nonsense, missing parts,
and now I find my rhyme is starting
to decay...as though it mattered!

Muse! MUSE! Where are you?
My artistry is dead, splattered
on the mildewed canvas of my soul:
imageless and threadbare, full of holes,
and in a black despair I'm calling
for your sigh...as though it mattered!

Muse! MUSE! Where are you?
Your voice, still ever with me, flattered
me such soothing rhythms, instilled my mind
such endless rhymes of sleep, as waking finds
you now: my brain, my heart, my soul—such blinding
trinity...as though it ever mattered!




Gay Noses (and other queer appendages)    

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(C) David 1/9/2007

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