PORE SUSPENSION

      I’m having a hard time making ends meet

      So what, my suit is tan, that is the style

      What with the grocery bills being

      What they are. Do you have the same trouble

      Now. And you know damn well that that is the way

      Adding 2 and 2 and getting uneasy,

      Strange numbers you never thought existed before?

      I like it: when the style changes so does my tie;

      It is not really the strangeness you are

      Talking about. It might be the coloring,

      You can hear me huffing (puff) (puff)

      But never the strangeness. That is beastly.

      Or, at least hot. The numbers creeping up

      Going down the street away from your door

      Behind you in your head, as you sit smoking

      The ash growing longer with the hours.

      After you have had the last word in the conver-

      It is the longest cigaret

      You ever smoked.

      Sensationally, speaking of our love, it is on the fritz,

      Part of the new german-french lover from ‟New Vague”

      Invading the number system