from the cowboy of midswept possibilities
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		rachel.
		is your ass beat -- mine is
		specializing fullday on your feet
		is your ass as beat as mine is

		having driven rene and me back three states
		leaving jenni michigan-mallville disconsolate
		i ask with loving candor.

		i offer backrub, bathtub, coffee, tea
		a king size bed

		this is being entirely
		too familiar
		with you
		having faced
		utmost
		precision in service, cordiality
		these are my wages and tips.

		permit this, if anything:

		every cowboy with a pony
		makes quartermoon eyes
		at the silver dollar tapaspecialist
		in a tencent rivertown
		some live to write a cheeky i adore you poem about it
		as if they would dare to mail it to her
		as if she would read it
		as if it would matter to them.
		as if a boy generalist could sing a tapaspecialist into
		a general dream and store her, team her, stow her.

		enough already let me sleep you are so
		easily read


			Marek Lugowski
			5 February 2001
			Chicago, Illinois