ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.COM
                        
***BIO*** I listen to Wilco more than my wife or conscience. I've had
poems recently appear in The Foliate Oak, Red Fez, Word Riot, decomP and
others. No one is buying let alone reading my novel The Trinity and there is
more info at my still very boring blog at
davidlabounty.blogspot.com
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You Can't Take This the Wrong Way
by David LaBounty
I can tell you're my age
but you've held
it together
you've kept it
lean and tight
and high and I'd

have to guess
that your body
hasn't been
wrecked or blessed
by children or couches
or fast food and
probably not
even animal fat
and your face

is smooth and
white, wrinkle
and make-up
free and there
are no middle
aged scars or
pock marks
anywhere
and yours is
a pretty face
on top of a
smoking body so

I don't know
who gave you
the goddamn
right to put
a stud in the
side of your
nose, something
that looks
like a zit
that refuses

to be popped.
Mar. 2008
103