the last sin   pale ashen sky a bleary eye clouds of recurring screams... i am a zoo   an octopus leviathan tentacles into an ocean of unformed emotions... syphilis and love     syphilitic pall stifles the clear blue i contort...   shell and pearl   amidst highs and lows in life's ocean flows a shell peony-mouthed...   i am an unmarried mother     fed on stings of barbed milk morality my child-plankton...   the lovers   cell upon cell bridge of their union hung on the pillars... rebirth   ogre of age and time cavil at a warm picture... the young today   innocence thaws at the altar of ambition...		ever a virgin you tell me you surrendered to a whim i feign a protest and think how come there are no bra strap marks on your blemishless skin i tell you about YouTube’s dirty clone you smile and ask multitasking, are we? i persist casually you begin to talk of visual merchandising ever a virgin 4 February 2007 Poetry Home