LPiA-24 Nov. 1

[RiverNotch]

Ideally,
when I wake up,
I kiss your face
then kiss the earth
some fifty times
then make good conversation,

and right before
I go to bed,
we talk again,
I kiss your face,
then kiss the earth
another fifty times.

Ideally:
I will confess
this sort of life
is hard enough
when one has nothing else to do.

If not the spirit
then the body
fails, and in despair
the spirit fails again,
she lacerates the body

and, again,
despair.