
you, tensile
your tensile strength [resistance to being pulled apart]
is measurable [we used to draw and quarter]
spoon breadth and length [height variable with tilt]
is pleasurable [tactilely, tastefully, visually]
be you a sketcher [recommended: ticonderoga black]
or a glutton [feeding your face with pleasuring spoon]
or arrow fletcher [a half-lost profession]
shredding mutton [for a spoonable soup]
..
[so much goes on without a trace this dusk that dawn at seasoned pace yet be you other woman man your brain is like a garbage can and fills with substance miscellaneous nacreous spacious subcutaneous and “that reminds me” is a riff that gives a skunk an air of spliff so pluckable our mem’ry’s strings and plucked we are as on we soldier and rhyme comes lordly from the rings a character named fatty bolger]










