I remember
when David would steal his Dads
Playboy magazine
it may have been that they still airbrushed
the important parts
or that, 
its was just flat
just couldn't get off on flat
maybe if they'd already invented scratch and sniff?

Poems though are so cool
they have hills and valleys
and Fuji and the heat of hell
cubes and boxes and shiny pools
smell like the inside of pyramids
and feel like sex on St. Thomas,
special new old familiar
like faces

  Boulder January 2002