We also give you the ability to alter Your Recent History
                                                                        - amazon.com

Take yesterday, for instance, what you thought, you
said, the pebble in your sandal replaced by rain, the
puddle in a late field gleaming like a collection plate,
and the mineral-rich run-off filling the ditch of your body
where a crayfish scuttled around the mud-sunk erotic
hymnal at the center of your heart.

Morning awoke to light hammering
and the repeated appearance of hard-boiled eggs
from out of her mouth agrees
what we have here is magical.

I got up and slipped on a pair of trousers.
I got up again.  My suspicious behavior
was peeking out from between the curtains
of her partially drawn right eye.

I would not deny my desire
for her needs to be walked,
the window weeps.
How could I tell the noise
about the neighbors.
Living elsewhere is not an option
we can afford it.

If only our preoccupations would hire us,
pay us more than we deserve, promote us
beyond our abilities, praise our conviction
and eventual ruination, we would have
something else to worry about.