Craig Cotter
I text Davin
in Rhode Island
"Still awake?"
*
A song plays
Vietnamese noodle place
teenagers
know.
In 30 years
they’ll hear it
at a Vietnamese
noodle place
*
"No."
"Hows longhair twink
you made-up for me?"
"He is real and he is rude."
"What rude thing he do
and how nice r his
feet?"
*
Black-eyed Susans.
*
A tool
roots in sandy soil.
*
"Didn't smile at me. Small
orange shoes."
"Tennis shoes?"
*
"Oui"
"I’d make him smile.
Whats his stats?"
*
"'night."
"X X"
Your Socks
Reading
Arabian Nights ,
the sultans’harems—
one girl for each day of the year
in every palace.
I’d have a twink harem.
        They’d get educated
& when too old
good jobs running my estate.
        So I stole
a pair of your white
ankle socks.
        As you’d blacked-out
figured you wouldn’t miss them.
        *
        The Beatles
had 4 lead singers.
They could each play
6 to 10 instruments.
        Electric light
on cars in parking lot
surrounded by black iron fence.
        *
Faint scent of you
or olfactory memory?
Hold them
to my nose
one at a time
Annoyed
to smell cotton,
then you’re gone.
Then your youth is gone
if you’re lucky.
        In a dream last night I was told:
“The problem with poetry
you get the noodles
mixed with the sauce.”
        *
        Beatles fans
fill the parking lot
43 years after they broke-up.
Jerry just called
stuck on the 101.
Frank O’Hara and I enter
        the Orpheum Theatre.
Oblivion doesn’t make much sense
& neither does life.
Zuma
Four 16-year-old surfers
cross PCH from Zuma
to Trancas Market parking lot.
Mustang & 4-by-4.
Clean sand from their feet.
Drop swim trunks behind towels.
Talk about sex like we did at 16.
Say good-bye with gentle fist pumps.
Fatigue After A Long Illness
I thought you were crying last night
late
in the other room.
Didn’t have enough in me
to check.
*
This morning I asked
and you weren’t.
Just sinuses.
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I text Davin
in Rhode Island
"Still awake?"
*
A song plays
Vietnamese noodle place
teenagers
know.
In 30 years
they’ll hear it
at a Vietnamese
noodle place
*
"No."
"Hows longhair twink
you made-up for me?"
"He is real and he is rude."
"What rude thing he do
and how nice r his
feet?"
*
Black-eyed Susans.
*
A tool
roots in sandy soil.
*
"Didn't smile at me. Small
orange shoes."
"Tennis shoes?"
*
"Oui"
"I’d make him smile.
Whats his stats?"
*
"'night."
"X X"
Your Socks
Reading
Arabian Nights ,
the sultans’harems—
one girl for each day of the year
in every palace.
I’d have a twink harem.
        They’d get educated
& when too old
good jobs running my estate.
        So I stole
a pair of your white
ankle socks.
        As you’d blacked-out
figured you wouldn’t miss them.
        *
        The Beatles
had 4 lead singers.
They could each play
6 to 10 instruments.
        Electric light
on cars in parking lot
surrounded by black iron fence.
        *
Faint scent of you
or olfactory memory?
Hold them
to my nose
one at a time
Annoyed
to smell cotton,
then you’re gone.
Then your youth is gone
if you’re lucky.
        In a dream last night I was told:
“The problem with poetry
you get the noodles
mixed with the sauce.”
        *
        Beatles fans
fill the parking lot
43 years after they broke-up.
Jerry just called
stuck on the 101.
Frank O’Hara and I enter
        the Orpheum Theatre.
Oblivion doesn’t make much sense
& neither does life.
Zuma
Four 16-year-old surfers
cross PCH from Zuma
to Trancas Market parking lot.
Mustang & 4-by-4.
Clean sand from their feet.
Drop swim trunks behind towels.
Talk about sex like we did at 16.
Say good-bye with gentle fist pumps.
Fatigue After A Long Illness
I thought you were crying last night
late
in the other room.
Didn’t have enough in me
to check.
*
This morning I asked
and you weren’t.
Just sinuses.