THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
She stood me up! her eyes disappeared
at dusk. She wore elegant gowns
no twentysomething could afford, but
when she wore those striped socks: I was a Roman
who crafted his meagre verses boxed in
by the barbarians: some bloody saxon'll
wipe his carcass with my manuscript: germs
descending to burbles in the burp of a sparrow
from Portugal two millenia hence.
She stood me up! her eyes disappeared
at dusk. She wore elegant gowns
no twentysomething could afford, but
when she wore those striped socks: I was a Roman
who crafted his meagre verses boxed in
by the barbarians: some bloody saxon'll
wipe his carcass with my manuscript: germs
descending to burbles in the burp of a sparrow
from Portugal two millenia hence.