Believe

9/12/90

She said that she liked

strawberry ice cream,

and old Neal Young albums

from the 1970s,

but she said she was

not beautiful.

She said her teeth were

too big, her ~~lips~~

mouth was too wide,

her legs were too short,

but I said, it doesn’t

matter, I like Neal Young,

too, but strawberry

only give me hives.

Your hands shake with

impatience, like nervous

racing-dogs, waiting

for the starting gun,

but I don’t even know

how to fall.