Leslie & Sheppard

A stoned boy in an army jacket
rocks with restrained impatience
___at the front of the bus
as the traffic light
delays his assignation
with his stop.

Nay, kid

Sacrosanct
___Sank your sac:
___ ___Religion
___ ___ ___Ate my balls

We cannot be
___What we are born:
We must invent modesty
___For imagined shame

Now Retrenching

Unfolding, life
___The map fills in
Unknown places fall into
___place
With the ease of overflight

Made lovely
___Ugly
___or learned and forgotten
More and more there is
___less and less
___ ___to know