Desperate Struggle, by Masae

Bonafide all in cold faith.
Tables annoyingly too
close to the stage.
Don't wish to delude any
back of the head fantasies
since my bed fellows'
premature departure.
Anticipate their inability
to adequately compensate.
This is an older building,
look upward and you see gargoyles.
I thought my neighbor was kidding.

Pablo Picasso, Head of a man, 1908.                        

Colin James has a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press.
He lives in Massachusetts.