Don't know what this is about *shrug*

calling for gentleness now

is a hitchhike to the desert-

there ain't no way-

sweet knows its place

and the damned slot it in

round in square, full

slough it off.

a joke now might be nice

or off-color, so what?

last night maybe

it could have been right.

now just rip it off.

I had a lover once

but lovers tarry, turn 

to bulls taken by horn.

copyright Cristina T. Cheng