dust

At our tastes: the crispness of life,

And we Mongoled human experience.

The tequila, that Sandras or Cassandras, or whomever

it had beeen

At the moment of malevolently blessing our heated and

Maddening consumption, was what we left

Our wives for; and then hardened ourselves on

The springless cushions of the sofas of our friends

Whom we eventually forgot the names of: