Sonnet Sequence: Northampton, Mass. (c. the 70s-80s)

sexy as, and tireless in her pursuit of Gs,

it was all I could do to keep up with her decrees;

Paul Revere on Secretariat in a race

until we both exploded like wild powder kegs.

Take that, Diane, I wanted to say, in rebound --

I have Joan now, my VA roommate's ex-girlfriend;

he was a portrait painter, and I'd seen Joan's nude,

and was hooked the moment I saw her pulchritude.

But, as they say, all the good things come to an end

and will tiptoe out of your life without a sound.

After Joan, I lived a life of sublimation --

of raunchy pornography and masturbation.

.

IX. Four Zoas, Making Love

I lived for a while at a poetry commune

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