from Medieval Romance
2. Sears Catalog
(To have and to hold)
I forgot which sect made this heresy
The Manicheans or the Pelagians or the Arians
the Donatists, maybe even the Marcionites
but it was fallacy
To test the scripture
(will it be whole, will it be broken)
To cherish the beloved
(Will it be beloved–
If the scripture be broken/whole)
Since no oath could resist questions
Since no word could resist
quaestus, quaesitum, quaerere ( to seek/to gain)
(The etymology of things being simple
The plain sense of things being
Mechanical)
And since there are things here
The things that you see on page 20 lingerie models
blue and green chemises
purple camisoles
beige and white
full-figure, 24 hour, cross-your-heart Playtex
Page 150
Garden tractors
The men who ride them more Determined w stamina than I
More Balanced/robust
(Stronger)
And trust me
Nor could I refuse (to see/k you), when they read me the note
you left in the copula
By Zeus and Hera
By her sister
By the twin sheep of Solomon
Recognizable as teeth
I could keep fighting to find a home in that mouth
I could be a garden tractor
I could be a model
A Weasel
You could use me to cut your lawn and
To drag the dead carcass of the dear
Out into the daylight (where it now sits falsely on the steps, buzzing
us with fake plastic flies and brimming over with a safe kind of
confidence: w/ stoicism, w/ idealism, w/ menace,)
And then skin it
A rug for the floor of our motor-home
Hope/Vestigial
This thing not seen in a long time
“white picket chivalry”–now there is a great phrase. i wish i had thought of it 
there are, of course, more sections to this one. i will try to post the others as they’re completed.
–D
ps no one has ever offered to cut my lawn either 
still waiting lol
white picket chivalry…i am envious - for no one’s ever flown a pink flamingo to be by my side, much less offered to cut my lawn (which is of course, a forest) *sighs*
i’ve added this to my fav’s