Swept Up Up.... and Away

                                                                         Swept Up
                                                                         Up....
                                                                         and Away


                                                                            I.
 We made a bell chamber
rang
noon
midnight
and thought we helped
by pealing through the silence
darkness
night;
But the more I gave
the less you wanted
til you wanted not me
but a down payment on a loan
of what interest your
our
genes
demand:
Ransom of our DNA
must we pay & pay?
                                                                          II.

Strange dreams of tenderness
and sex;
What we want
we want.
Now I look at morning
a fortress of solitude in my mind
a kryptonite world surrounding
The real world, grounding.