Tomorrow or the next day will be
Your birthday,
But I am not good at math,
And I am not even immortal, though
I read them as I drive around New Mexico,
Doing the work of so many Conquistadors…..
Finally, I lay down and think about you
And get drunk and ready,
Though I have more scars than yesterday
I still sometimes get carded for the quaff
That blooms these words…. Oh so,
I call for you, a barroom rose, the reason for
America and those legs! Because you know who
Your are because you are crazy and wind tossed
And never settled,
The same as me when I am driving though cautious
Of authority, salivating to the renaissance of your shaven
Legs: You know they could go on forever if I
Didn’t have to turn away, but this is just another
Line burnt to a cinder, a sacrifice to your holiday,
And even though you remember me,
You have never seen me though here I am even now
Lying down my hand: Though when I rise again in the
Morning it will be blearing just the same,
And this poem will have been passed to the hands of the
Dead, as I will have thought of better lines I cannot remember,
But this is your America,
And this is your poem in place of my body,
The failure of the truth of my language, your blistered lavios
The doorways to the pollinations of high school,
Your eyes the hidden planets who have turned away,
As I would have thought to turn you towards me with
A motioning finger, as if it were a humming verb,
And I am only slightly drunk,
So tomorrow there will be more work and standard bred horses,
And old Mexicans name Antonio who insists on being paid,
And then it will be your birthday,
By Saturday at least, and you won’t even know
The little things I give to you all day
Until there is nothing left but a single candle
Like the tear of a burning angel leaping like a hungry
Bumblebee over the lips of a passive if elegant rose….
June And Then July
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