MY FRIEND SHELLEY

Shelley said that desolation doesn’t walk

and it doesn’t fly. I don’t think it crawls,

and I know it doesn’t dance. I am almost 

positive it doesn’t limbo, and it doesn’t

sit down or remain supine or levitate

or twirl like what’s his name the dancer

and you know how nobody eats

or sleeps or takes a bath in film

noir movies? That also is the way

of desolation, in addition to not

walking dancing flying crawling

limbo twirling or one more: doing

the cha cha (1961) - no -there is no 

eating or bath taking. Still, and I think 

that Shelley will support me on this, 

desolation has a feathery touch,

and fans us with plumes until

we slumber and then of course

there is a big KA-POW! KA-CHUNK!
but the rest is like the dream of the 

most gentle bear you can imagine, 
or maybe just bear monsters like Love 

just because it is a dream doesn’t mean 
it doesn’t have a shadow and inside 
the little dark of that a dream too