This Wasn’t in the Brochure

once past february, catholic sex has
too much detail to be in midwestern states
under clearest light in eastern philosophy
where city is now an adjective
to have a diet, caffeine-free coke with you
out flower picking in the xeriscape garden
speechless with rock and rye in hand
where she fingered the illegals & loved
to explain what it is to have a donkey
to jean valjean & his clockwork children
who post their fantasy truths on the net
in earnest efforts for world unity
to palm the invisible cool hundred
dressed in their best johnny cash