Another Face

Savior

He took an excerpt from the ART OF FAILURE, wrote it into

his ART OF SUCCESS, hid it again in the ART OF THE

ANTHROPOCENE, then closed it with a satisfied heart,

feeling like a savior.

Dentist (after Sarah Howe)

Maybe pulling the plug

is just a mutual blessing.

You are shy moonbeam

with a slight blush. I am

the rock in the lava that

tries to coagulate in vain.

The next time we meet

is our first time, please

sans words pull out my

cavities. My eyes will be

willfully out of focus and

I won’t cry again. I promise.

I turned into a gay man who cannot return.

Into a man who cannot, I return.

Turned, who cannot return, I am.

Gay, I turned into who cannot return.

Man, I turned, cannot return into who.

Cannot turn into who I am.

Who, a gay man, I turned.

Into who cannot return, I turned.

Return to who I am, a gay man.

Man who cannot, I turned into.

Who I am, a gay man cannot turn.

Into I turned, cannot return.

Gay man, I cannot return to who.

Cannot return, I turned into a gay man.

I, who turned, cannot return.