No advice from lint

          I opened the aluminum mailbox and looked

No stocks inside an envelope's seal while two

Utility bills gaze hungry in a endless appeal

While the lint in my pocket is alone and uninterested.

-B.Hill

Two lovers make love despite their sunburns

With motion slow and gingerly they place

Their outward forms, broiled bright in carapace,

Like linesman handling bared high-tension wires,

Dreading the surges of abrupt desires.

-X.J. Kennedy

XXXXXL

XXXXXL

big enough to set sail.

-B.Hill

Bucks Chance

Today I picked up my pants for the playoffs.

Brilliant, white matched with midnight green,

crisp, washed in a may-tag machine.

These pants will only serve me once;

one game, one day, one chance, one play.

And if I do, take advantage of these pants,

they will continue a stream of hope for me.

I can not speak for you,

but its its my knees that wants this.

One chance to run, one play and I am done,

through and past, a cut then fast!

A beam light, a song of fight.

A spiraling wave of energy.

An explosion of currency,

smeared with blue and red.

Grass and hurt, boos and dirt.

We won, I did it, I made it.

I scored. I'm done.

-B.Hill

Wrestlers

Wrestlers don't really wear pants.

pants are more like tights.

tights that hug your buns.

buns that show off your quads.

quads that kick some ass.

Wrestlers don't even wear shirts.

shirts are more like tank tops.

tank tops that cling to your pecks.

pecks that show off your guns.

guns that kick some ass.

-B.Hill

business slacks

jonboy wears black slacks

everywhere!

business slacks.

to work, to the pub

in the street, in the tub

shooting paint, on terrain

in new york, in the rain

on a trip, in a boat

in a castle, in a moat

on vacation, in the sun

in new jersey, shooting guns

to the bodega, cheap beers

at a lounge, just for queers

on a rainbow, eatin vag

dresses always in business cas

-B.Hill

pants plus

sunrise, time to put on

my nike pants plus

- i can't make a fuss

it starts right now,

uphill on the treadmill.

strong thighs, they could be

i'm no grass eater

- i got a pedometer

it's inside my nike plus pants,

no need for fancy supplements.

10,000, steps is all i need

watched a show on the nacho

made in mexico, just cheese and jalepeno

afterwise, is how I am

the plus pants by nike

- i won't be at all achy

thank god I have these on,

or i would be asleep throughout dawn.

-B.Hill

Pls, stop sendg msgs2ths

Pls, stop sendg mesgs2ths

no, i am not linda,

I hv not slept w/yr sis,

+i wd nvr call any1's ma a slag.

Gd luk w/viag.

Luv, yr wrong no. xxx

-Charlotte Fortune

The bagel

I stopped to pick up the bagel

rolling away in the wind,

annoyed with myself

for having dropped it

as if it were a portent.

Faster and faster it rolled,

with me running after it

bent low, gritting my teeth,

and i found myself doubled over

and rolling down the street

head over heels, on complete somersault

after another like a bagel

and strangely happy with myself.

-David Ignatow

Put on me pants.

put on me pants.

not you, me. 

they are on the floor.

my only pair, i have no more

my pants are corduroy

soft, ribbed, oh boy!

warm, fuzzy, hunter green

ordered them from l.l. bean

thats a lie, i didn't

fifty percent off at ralph lauren

-B. Hill