A poem about compulsions,
with allusions to “2001”.

i haven’t seen any
good porn lately
oh baby, oh baby
who cares


i’m Silver-Surfing around Uranus
leaving my traces,
as we zoom out to the vastness of space –

there’s one old account still active:
a beacon;
a still, moldy vessel for public lice
with all the water-under-the-surface secrets of a
dirty-minded twenty-something’s
compulsionary vice,
frozen in time


and nothing’s going off there, either.

it’s not for lack of invocation:
putting on my web goggles;
tightening my gloves
like i’m the Baron, speed-cracking my knuckles,
despite no chance against Snoopy like
Charlie versus Lucy.
that’s a thousand hours of dedication
i could have poured into anything else.