reading: red leather den talk

red leather den talk

i'd rather be sexless

      than an old husk masturbating ; i prefer empty

    to   half or less full of turgid water - i suspect

       this   is the edge  of the prefectures of death: I

  protest  only occasionally

                           the way that food , no longer desirable

  will not settle in me -the fact

                that the glow of the wine is almost outrun

  right away

             by the heat and pressure of the sugar-fed bacteria

   in the cracks in my sinus - minus

       the minute , i pass things over to you , time

  to sip red wine, and wait and smoke and die.

2010 Peter Greene.