The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems

Moto_Myotis · Post by **Moto_Myotis** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:36 am

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

JustNate · Post by **JustNate** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:53 am

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.

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:19 pm

Kick ath!

Moto_Myotis · Post by **Moto_Myotis** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:29 pm

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

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:09 pm

Dammed hippies...

monstergirl · Post by **monstergirl** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:14 pm

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.

goose · Post by **goose** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:17 pm

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.

piccini9 · Post by **piccini9** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:54 pm

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

GOSTAZ · Post by **GOSTAZ** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:32 pm

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

Ames · Post by **Ames** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:47 pm

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

A fantastically shit-tastic one!

xtian · Post by **xtian** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:29 pm

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?

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:31 pm

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.

Moto_Myotis · Post by **Moto_Myotis** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:05 pm

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

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The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems

The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems