The Muffin Man

opens with a doorbell
& cryptic references to salesmen
why would you be nervous?
some ovaltine, perhaps
in black and white film
this would be suspicious
the love of a man for his painting
sometimes a cigar
is a greater symbolic logic
in a somnambulists vocabulary
but that’s romantic ideal
in a world before drag queens
that keeps resurfacing all day like
a song that gets stuck in your head