David Shapiro describes the following as "a poem I received in a dream once. I couldn't believe I could rhyme in a dream! It was supposedly a popular rock song (in the dream!)"Desire Lines
I can see
I cannot see
Keats in surgery in the l9th century
I can see
I cannot see
Mars and Aphrodite
dancing in the net while the gods played and laughed at
the castanet
I can see
I cannot see
Keats and Fanny
Allen Ginsberg in l953
I can see
I cannot see
An adult
Is a raindrop
A raindrop
Is an adult
I can see
I cannot see
Lou Andreas Salome and
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mars and Botticelli
Keats and Fanny B
Allen and Peter Orlovsky
Elizabeth and "and"
I can see
I cannot see
An adult
Is just an instrument
A landscape pornography
That hill is a hole
I walk on desire lines
You walk on desire
I can see
I cannot see
-- David Shapiro
