UTMC

I found this at the SF Library's booksale today and I just had to have it. For $1, how could I go wrong?

Uneasy Rider

by Diane Wakoski
Falling in love with a mustache
is like saying
you can fall in love with
the way a man polishes his shoes
which,
of course,
is one of the things that turns on
my tuned-up engine

those trim buckled boots

(I feel like an advertisement
for men’s fashions
when I think of your ankles)

Yeats was hung up with a girl’s beautiful face

and I find myself

a bad moralist,

a failing aesthetician,

a sad poet,

wanting to touch your arms and feel the muscles
that make a man’s body have so much substance,
that makes a woman
lean and yearn in that direction
that makes her melt/ she is a rainy day
in your presence
the pool of wax under a burning candle
the foam from a waterfall

You are more beautiful than any Harley-Davidson
She is the rain,
waits in it for you,
finds blood spotting her legs
from the long ride.

Kick ath!

I love the women Beat poets. They don't really mince their words.

Dammed hippies...

What a score!

Glad to know I'm not the only one to have had that thought about certain ex's. Although, mine is more driving over a cliff in a fiery ball of flames.

Moto_Myotis wrote:I love the women Beat poets. They don't really mince their words.

I usually have to pay extra to get a woman poet to beat me. But it's worth it when they don't mince their words.

Don't believe anything she says, I was young and inexperienced.

You are more beautiful than a Harley Davidson? What kind a beat poet says that?

GOSTAZ wrote:You are more beautiful than a Harley Davidson? What kind a beat poet says that?

A fantastically shit-tastic one!

GOSTAZ wrote:You are more beautiful than a Harley Davidson? What kind a beat poet says that?

that's the poetic way to say you're fat isn't it?

GOSTAZ wrote:You are more beautiful than a Harley Davidson? What kind a beat poet says that?

You have to remember this was pre-douchecanoe.

That's better than Mick Jagger singing about some woman's face being "like a sail."