Baby, It's Cold Outside

[68degrees]

Rejoice you are not here, flat dead with the rest
of us in one of those earthen plots where they chisel
your name in a granite headstone; instead we lie,
naked and useless, day in and night out, waiting
as an asthmatic waits for breath,
as a diabetic waits for insulin,
as a paraplegic waits for legs,
as a womanless man waits for love

This is the time to lie down and be counted,
to become a statistic lost in the columns:
the divorces, the college grads,
the deaths by tsunami, by earthquake,
by rope or carbon monoxide, by Viagra
prescriptions, the next order in a pizzeria,
ejaculations, the number of vitamin B12
pills in your medicine cabinet, next
to the sharp razor and mirror you look
into every morning and pray to God
for another day to live and breathe

[shadowplay]

oh lord
Viagra's deadly?
damn

otherwise...yes we're all stiffs, or stiffs-to-be
we toggle from rigor to rigor mortis
and we're all in mortal danger at all times

sweet piece, 68
I dig it

[WIREMAN]

i can tell ya a viagra story, but i might b the 1st person banned at S8

[Doreen Peri]

Love the imagery in this, 68!

....

Go ahead, Mark... tell that story. You won't get banned, I promise. Did you get an erection for more than 6 hours and have to contact your doctor? hahah... ... hey, those commercials are pretty funny.

[68degrees]

Wireman,

Would love to read that Viagra story sometime

This one is pretty wordy, actually, but glad a few things found their way for folks to like.

68degrees