naked flower

Have you ever landed on a flower
A naked flower
heart
brain
legs
spread
I daresay...not

And if you ever should
you'd certainly
bungle it

vapor

I cannot destroy your demons
but i might put them in a net
I cannot heal your wounds
but the breaks we can set
I cannot make you whole
but i can make you forget
There is no panacea
for the pains you'll never sever
Insecurity, fear, guilt, aggression
will be yours ever, however
You may have my head, as long as it thrills you
You may have my heart, as long as it stills you
You may have my heat, as long as it fills you
The rest
is vapor...

four girlfriends

I've got four girlfriends
but i'd give 'em up for you
(if love-hoarding appeals
to your darwinian view)

Radhika gives me rubbing
Bethany brings blank checks
Suki is silly and smart
and perzsika is pure sex

But i'll drop 'em all for you
if that's what you want me to do
Though they might love you too
(suki would never let you be blue)

And i AM a bit high-maintenance
A massage plus two-hour sex each day
And you REALLY might love perszika
(i'll be frank; she goes either way)

But i'll give 'em up for you
if your caring precludes sharing
I only want eleven kids
Are you ready? Are you raring?

undone

Most done things can't be undone
This world we've made is not one

feminist animalist communicationalist writer blues

I can't say sissy
I can't say pussy
I sure can't say ham-handed
I'm not complaining
Though maybe slow-laneing
We all must pay for what man did

I can't say beefy
(though i can say queefy!)
I can't call a woman a girl
Cunt i can't say
'Less i say it a new way
An empowered pussy pearl!

I can't say reel 'er in
Or dropped the ball again
Or "My oh my, a sausage party i spy!"
I can't say "hand of fate"
It's "envelop", not penetrate
And don't get me started on "testify"

Do the things i can't utter
Make my writing stutter?
Not if i'm clever and candid
I love what i am
and i don't miss ham
(though i do kinda miss ham-handed)

failed song 4

(I liked this when i wrote it, but was already growing past the normalcy of the chords i came up with, except the bridge...it had a killer bridge. I fleetingly considered making stranger chords, but unrelateable lyrics [abstract, confusing] killed this one.)

EVIL ME
If i were in a sci fi accident
and became evil me
This is what would happen
This is what the world would see

If i were my evil twin
i'd sterilize all the men
To stop overpopulation
and planet-wide desecration
Every male except the one you see
If i were evil me
If i were evil me
i'd make a cloning facility
How amazing would that be?
A million of me - wheeeee!

If i were evil me
i'd put rich folk on a boat at sea
and maroon them
with no technology
Millions of mansions for the homeless
instantly empty and free
Heave all the heartless hoarders
from our humyn community

If i were my evil twin
i'd do a lotta rapin'
Except i wouldn't, because even evil me
is mortified by male brutality
So i'd probably just make every womyn i see
comfort and cuddle me
Unless they wanted to flee
Then i'd just rub their belly
But i'd rub evilly
if i were evil me

If i were evil me
I'd destroy every farm factory
I'd crush animal cruelty
if i were evil me
If i were my evil twin
you'd never wear clothes again
Nudity is compulsory
with evil me
If i were evil me
i'd set every prisoner free
Or maybe that's good me
Life is so fucking confusing!

If i were my evil double
i really wouldn't be any trouble
Because nobody's evil you see
Only lost and lonely

If i were evil me
i'd declare by imperial decree
everybody must love me
if i were evil me

to boldly glow...

(In coronaisolation, my creative focus has ranged from saving the world to utter triviality...like this! Wait, who am i kidding - this idea predates inshelteration.)

It's time to answer the question that has plagued humynity since we left our caves. Who should every Trek character have ended up with, romantically?
Mind you, at its core the question is unworthy of consideration, because it feeds into the life-denying notion that one ought define oneself by romantic status/partnering. Poppyrot! Some need no partner, some need several. Some relationships are perfect for a moment, some for a season, some for a lifetime.
That said, let's get silly.
WHOM THEY SHOULD HAVE ENDED UP WITH
ORIGINAL SERIES
UHURA - I'd say the swahili crew member from "The Man Trap"...but that was little more than a projection of her psyche. Of course, one could argue that neurobiologically, ALL other people are simply projections of our psyche. That kiss with kirk was tantalizing, and the scotty flirtation worked, but...let's go with the projection!
SCOTTY - Uhura. I contradict myself? Get over it.
SULU - whomever he damn well wants
CHEKOV - Yeoman landon from "The Apple". So sweet it should be called "The Candy Apple".
MCCOY - Natira. Get back to your asteroid, doctor.
KIRK - Miramanee? Edith? I'll take the easy way out, as they died (though in an even playing field, miramanee trumps all). The winner is...elaan! You know, of Troyius. Are you saying YOU wouldn't watch their spin-off? It's drama. It's comedy! It's a humdinger.
SPOCK - The first stumper. Leila or zarabeth? Isn't both together an option? Happiness or hormones. No, that's an unfair reduction...you never saw spock so poignantly, interconnectedly alive as in "All Our Yesterdays". It's zarabeth.
NEXT GENERATION
WESLEY - Ensign robin lefler. Sigh.
WORF - sorry deanna, it's k'ehleyr
DATA - Tasha. He's smart enough to overcome the obstacles.
BEVERLY - finn, from "The High Ground"
GEORDI - leah brahms, remove head from hiney
WILL - imzadi
DEANNA - ditto (no, that's not data's long-lost nephew)
JEAN-LUC - I so want to say ardra, but...anij. Super sigh me.
DEEP SPACE NINE
BEN - they had two brilliant options, alternate universe jennifer and kira (don't tell me there wasn't something there in the pilot), and instead they went with...i can't even say her name
QUARK - Grilka!
JADZIA - a rotating roster, with lenara ("Rejoined") the constant
KIRA - shakaar
EZRI - Kellin, from "The Siege of AR-558". Worf or bashir? No no no no no...
O'BRIEN - A lug wrench? Anything but keiko.
BASHIR - sarina
ODO - kira
WORF - Sorry jadzia, it's...leeta! Am i not genius?
VOYAGER
TUVOK - with apologies to his alleged wife, it's noss from "Gravity"
HARRY - with apologies to tom, it's derran tal from "The Disease"
KES - tom
TOM - rain, from "Future's End" (after kes dies of old age)
NEELIX - dexa (she deserves better, but it gets him off the ship)
CHAKOTAY - b'elanna
B'ELANNA - chakotay
JANEWAY - Chakotay. Let them figure it out, as long as he stays away from...
SEVEN - the doctor
THE DOCTOR - seven
ENTERPRISE
MALCOLM - um, er...
PHLOX - crewman cutler
HOSHI - travis
TRAVIS - hoshi
TRIP - Private cole, from "Harbinger". Or phlox's wife. That red alien! Anyone but...
T'POL - archer
ARCHER - t'pol (aren't you impressed that i didn't say "or riann...or capt. hernandez...")

Live long and canoodle.