I just know
nothing good is going to come from this
with only the help of a small fib
a look and an utterly useless foolish kiss
mind you though
not that I am some puritanical pessimist
but a cold realist
to quite a rather smarting degree
I should confess
damn, but how I hate it
when I get like this
so bloody forthcoming
yet negative.................
(May 3, 1998)