that strange interlude

1/13/05

i was
just a shell
to
her
and I could
never
be that, not then, and
not
now
because I am
a Goat, not
a creature of the sea

see?

i am more than
the mollusk
she thought I
was, and if
you can’t understand
what a Goat is

(more than just a bicycling
partner!)

then, ma’am, it’s your
loss.