originally published on August 26 2018
Become GOD by Loving a Woman
loving a woman
is the purest act of GOD
that i could ever achieve
to become GOD
is to love
or so the saints tell me
not prayers nor supplication
no form of fasting
twice daily mass
or money given to destitute
none such as these will ever achieve
pure transcendency
like loving a woman.
Insert Poetic Title
between romantic titles
the comedy of the situation is the fact that
what we like best is laying at home on the couch
not bothering with pretend social cues or
being on our best behavior.
insert yourself
your poetic title to place a label on our home
or the fact that there’s three of us and
we don’t look anything like what our mother’s birthed
insert
a sense of home unlike anything we’ve ever known
where the opening of a door is like
the opening of the world to greet us and
we don’t want to die anymore.
between the titles of
the piddling books we like to read
on another cloudy Oregon day,
we can argue about nonsense,
because we like it best
and you’ll write what you like
and i’ll write what i like
and at the end of the day it will just be us
writing wrong words – nonsense – shit that no one else will read
but fuck,
at least we made each other happy for –
half a second in the time span of our lives.