Lolita

You have an understanding with her

that all this is terribly incorrect —

she has just picked up the novel you know well.

Technically she is of age;

she observes that “To Sir With Love” is

one kinky number, yet she has not been to perfume

if she is past crayons at all.

Now you lol, you are pedo,

too ready to pass Judgment

and straight to hell when

in another life

you are Peter Pan and she is Tinker Bell,

and you are young and sauvage and

you never grow up.

But that is not right, in Neverland

Tinker Bell is always loving Peter Pan

and no more, quite

like this life.

La donna è mobile

Heart of woman never settles

but she is no woman about you, Sir,

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Barely Legal

hers does not fly.

From the beginning she has wanted you but

she has known her place with a married man is

in Neverland,

where you will ask if she is your

Lolita

and she will dignify on her knees the fire in your loins

with a winking smiley, a smiley mobile,

and no one but the trees and

the wild things are listening.

While you shuttle to your window in the real world

she might grow up into lipstick.

Black orchid is the color of woman’s blood.

She will send you a selfie; she knows

you’d fuck that.