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women see bones and hard flesh angular,
whole being in a step or glass held in talk, angled a certain way, or a voice
as a promise of care or whatever it is would draw you.\

men/ same

to hazard a guess: there is no angle in paradise

a curve we don't deserve: sex at 52, in life

I had to go into the dark to be alive.

then I was   held   in a graveyard, lay blind 
drunk on a wet lawn, at dawn. 

all I ever wanted 

learn love   almost ruined by our expectations of it. 

at 52.