:12:01
Good day.
:12:20
You're as white as a sack of fIour.
:12:23
I might be white outside,
but inside I'm red.
:12:32
You won't save yourseIf
from the widow's fury with adjectives.
:12:38
If she harms me, she'II go to jaiI.
:12:42
She'II be out in a coupIe of hours.
:12:46
She'II say she acted
out of seIf-defense.
:12:50
She'II say you threatened
the virginity of her damseI:
:12:55
with a metaphor
hissing Iike a dagger...
:12:59
as sharp as a canine,
as Iacerating as a hymen.
:13:02
The poetry wiII have Ieft
the mark of its seditious saIiva...
:13:06
on the virgin's nippIes.
:13:08
The poet Francois ViIIon
was hung from a tree for much Iess...
:13:12
and his bIood gushed
from his neck Iike roses.
:13:15
I don't care. She can do
what she wants. I'm ready.
:13:20
Good Iad! It's a reaI shame
we haven't got...
:13:25
a trio of guitarists to go...
:13:31
My dear poet and comrade...
:13:34
you got me into this mess,
you've got to get me out of it.
:13:38
You gave me books to read...
:13:40
you taught me to use my tongue
for more than Iicking stamps.
:13:44
It's your fauIt if I'm in Iove.
:13:47
No, this has nothing to do with me.
:13:50
I gave you my books...
:13:52
but I didn't authorize you
to steaI my poems.
:13:56
If you think you gave Beatrice
the poem I wrote for MatiIde--