What She Said on a Lewd Lute Night

So I go to Ashenda

to get some fix

Shandar there

playing his lute

& a dark haired angel

combing a violin

I cry Anatolia! Anatolia!

I'm a nightingale shrieking

dawn's first flick

I'm the unknown soldier

singing it's me again

I say one more

& I'm ready for the Western World

Then I'm at a bar

with Lucinda

& we're drooling

on the body on

discipline and the reign

of Robespierre

Then it's consummation time

& I say hey

there's a ram butting

at the door & a widow's

crying for something

I say Lucinda

I've got a drum in my belly

& she says

I'm a goddamn

shivering eel

Then it's polka

on a South Dakota lawn

Shandar doodling

Shahrazad stomping

by the window

soaking up the light

Then we all smoke Camels

& Lucinda says

I wish I could live

without having to disown

& I say yeah

tell me more

about that

Source: Ismailia Eclipse (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1995)