Flows through my heart

It fucks with me solid

I can’t help having character flaws

Ask Shakespeare about that

He knew we were all fucked

But…

How fucked are we

If your flaw is me having flaws

That won’t end pretty

Have I tried

To set up a home

With a woman

It was only

The most important thing

I ever wanted to do

I couldn’t tell you why

It was important

Maybe cause

There was something

Something wrong or right

About me

And I failed each time

And I got stuck

Wondering why?

“They lived happily ever after

Till they died”

Still alludes me

Fuck

When I mess around

I’m not escaping anything

I’m trying to figure out

If you are worth figuring out

My advanced research

Makes me believe

A Doctorate program

Is in order

So, I am going to study

You with a steth-oh-scope

And other instruments

Bend over and say, “Ahhh”

Cause maybe life is

A working vacation

And where ever we are
We are together peacefully

And also with out problems

And that is the joy

Of what it will always be

How great would that be

By a world of people

Too fucked to examine

Their fucked up shit

They are not bad people

Their dark secrets

Remain hidden

Even to themselves

But I believe

Lost and Found

Will happen everywhere

And everybody will walk around

Found,”I am so fucked

I am in great, great pain

But isn’t this a beautiful Hell”

Does it matter

I feel refreshed

Snoring is my chant

And what a great word

Snoring is

Nothing boring about snoring

I carry this hard-on for you

The good kind

Not the mean spirited hard-on

With an attitude

Hoping to deliver this package

In the best possible shape…

I do dust  and polish

Just to keep it newish looking

And just to make sure

It’s delivered in good working order

Oh it’s returnable

But really looking for a warm home

My belief is

Once my hard-on is prized

The mean spirited one

Will develop a new spirit

And work together with Yin

They will combine forces

To take care of you

In new and interesting ways

Was the most important thing

I have ever done in my life

Every time I check that spot

And see your ass sweat

I kiss it and swear

I will always paint around it

So much more

Now that I’m

Getting rid of

Everything

Of course

I’m just

Getting rid of

Everything

So I can get

More of what

I don’t need

So that I can get rid of it

And find out who I am

Or who I’m not

Materialism is not the problem

Used properly it is the solution

Just come to the store and buy crap

And all will become evident to you

My life remained the same

I walked down the same blocks

I ate at “Our Spot” restaurants

I shopped at our bargain spots

Sometimes I’d turn to my right

To say something to you

And even though you weren’t there

I’d say it anyway

And that really was painful

Because I had a stiff neck

But I had to know

Where you were

And I hope you’re not suffering

And you can walk down

Those same blocks we walked down

And go to “Our Spot” restaurants

And find that cool item in “the shop”

Cause even though

We aren’t walking down the same path

Our path was a fun one

And once you get past some pain

It can be fun again with someone else

“Well, you’re a Bukowski type of man.”

“Me!? I don’t drink, I’m not abusive.”

“You write fucked up poems about relationships

You are blunt, caustic, gruff, poor, sleep on a couch.”

“Yeah, but I ruined my life in the hopes of finding love

I don’t have his futility. Everything I did was worth it

I mean he changed in the end

Confessions on His Death Bed, I guess”

“You’re just the other side of the coin,”she said

“Then try going out with the other side.,” I said