I

When the world freezes over,
The soft glow of the computer screens will leak against a sky-black universe
When everything goes on without us,
Stop-lights and streetlamps will light the way
For all the people who don’t look there
The beast in the pit
When the stores will always be empty,
Vegas will ****** no one with her lights,
A blinding light

II

Green-glow and blue-shine will cry out
From their boxes in vain, to
The glowing black-blue swirl of
Cosmic magnificence!
Humanity’s ancient projections will whimper and beg
The interstellar paradise ingentis so unexplored
For desperate affection and faces,
        drooling.

III

When the bottom falls off…
When the bell tolls for thee…
When the plug comes out from the wall….
You will not look,
You will stare.
Eyelids - hanging like abandoned bridges
Skin - blue with the afterglow still clinging to what it caught.
Sweating through your bottom
Until you expire, and – then, we will cower away from the great
For thine…

IV

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chivalrous and butch,
her rippling soft muscles
open my car door, drive me home
she shyly wishes to touch, to kiss
till I walk through the door

we could be squished
softer now than we've ever been before
yet fuller, more common and true
existing not as pearl but the ocean,
gently lapping on the shore

my lover offers a kind of provision
against the sharp misunderstandings of
death, men, psychiatrist, and priest
with a mirror held up
I see femininity in its wholeness
I see a love complete

what is a lesbian?
but woman isolated
and therefore—ideally—
unencumbered, nearly pure
the nebulous female civitas
only existing in fantasy
or poetry, or

in my lover's arms and lips
her unladylike,
undeniably woman,
touch