Hell is no three-legged dog,

less so an empty bottle,

but a premature puppy

and gallon of fluoridated water.

You cannot handle heaven’s pearls

nor the truth from all you’d known.

Eternity is seen in poor grey people,

but only …

L’appel du vide

   – for a poet I’ve never read.

To be drunk always is

never having to be sober.

The blood runs saccharine.

When I was young, yet not

enough to justify doing it,

I loved You …