the meeting of the minds is an appointment difficult to schedule
and to keep

addiction is an accountant's name for obsession
(remember, accountants invented writing)

the free have no duty
but the responsible do

to linger longer
during the after

to gather—but not collect—seashells in the mountains

show me your mutations
everything else about you
is so much the same
that it makes you human
rather than you

shall I embrace you agreeably
as representative humanity
or obsess over your deviant individuality?

the clues are dispersed
to permit the pleasures of seeking

theoretical heterosexuals
heretical in their restraint

the echo of orgasm
in the chasm of discontent—
what is borrowed
is what is spent