dummy

–Do you love me?
     –I love you.
–Do you trust me?
     –I trust you.

Lucifer

This is the most interesting of

the devils. The light-bringer, morning-

star. Babylonian King Helal. Day-

star mis-translated by Saint Jerome

as Lucifer. He being the stuff

of fireflies longs to be spread in.

He longs to be spread “on the wing.”

But he has to be clean, and removed

ordinarily. He has four years.

Maybe. There’s even a gun…. Roy

you soliloquist. Hero and machine.

Your potential for entering the

daylight, Huge, Huge. Does anyone

mean as much (as they say)?

Spider

Shielded inside the walls and money.

Dear hands, dear furniture.

Making a spinneret of the clocks.

Making a miniature of the weevils.

The snakes, the owls, the ospreys;

robotic, queer things. Grand-

daddy longlegs, funny-face, raz-

mataz. She spies the one thing she

wants and then she chases it.

And then she changes her mind.

It is going to work, after all. It is

going to be too hard to speak of.

And no way to diet. The rest is too

wonderful, too obscene to begin with.