We partnered And I loved her like I have cracked nuts. Crushing wooden grains Wound so long, so tight Looking for her heart Like something I would eat.
Love me! Cried the sow to the farmer Who secretly lusted for her Each night beside his wife (bored and neighbor-less having found no handsome No strong young stable-hand) But who found no pretense To spare his one true love The world of the falling Axe.
And should I exit without warning Or strength or impetus or time And should I exit in a fury No whimper squint or whine Who will know and bear the list of all those I thought were Clearings In the woods.
Today the funniest joke in the world came to me, out of nowhere, better than anything my mind had ever run its tongue over. There was no one around, so I just told it to the wall. That's life.