Surface or Depths

         I saw a woman today
    on the top shelf of the video store
    Pamela Anderson-hyphen-Lee
   and her eyelashes said "oh Peter"
  and her dainty blouse said "please
  help me.."
    and my shoes stood still
    and my eyes resembled a man
   thinking of something far away

   "For $4.95" breathed her cutoff
   shorts, "I'd be Pamela-hyphen-
   Riley, you wouldn't hurt me any more than Tommy Lee already did.


  and my collar pinched me and said
 "LISTEN to THAT!!!!"
and my pants pocket smirked..
   but I swallowed hard and my collar felt ok again and my shirt pocket
 yelled "HEY down there! YOU are
 NOT in the decision making department"

   so I rented "Sleepless in Seattle"
and Doris and I enjoyed it very much.

A Real Man

What kind of man would let his heart off the leash
and watch it bound from this one to that one...
and back again to the first.
always with a lugubrious dog style panting..
"Notice me ..NOTICE ME"  "Pat my head,
scratch my ears. I'll roll on my back if you scratch me there.
BUT...
is man a dog??

Plato was a Dope

Must I rest for platonic?
I desire TECTONIC, electronic, bionic, SUPERSONIC!!!
Though my mind says "moronic"
still I yearn for that tonic.
It may be demonic and completely Bubonic
yet i crave in my heart parts (the very ionic)
with achings the doctor would classify chronic
to love you with words: I'm a man not laconic
I'll permit no love fluff for that's locked in mnemonic
Though the brashness of crave waves is plainly cyclonic
What's distilled will be true
for a quote that is Donne-ic says
"No man is an island."