What is a Slow Hiss

Is it in contemplating a hollow victory

for all victory is hollow if you think you seem sane

which is why I love football because you're one

way or the other .

If shovelling disgusting little acorns of knowledge

into your cheeks is a worthy use of one's time

and knowing when to swallow them

doesn't watercolour your spirit

or keep you a drone in indecision

or turn your slow hiss into something

like the cat's claw in the air mattress

then maybe you're as pure

as an athlete when

Saturday comes.

Troisvierges

We agreed to meet in Troisvierges 

Since it was roughly in the middle

The wind was a motherfucker 

It only rained when we went outside 

The Auberge wasn't serving Indian after all

Back on the bus we tried to imagine

Where the other animals had gone

What else could go wrong

And who we might nominate

To be the two other virgins --

Yet another hopeless cause

It was a question of age

As is always the case

The answers lay with Agnes Varda

As is always the case