
My Boy Delivers
Now I know I'm clever in every endeavor I make to appear more appealing My brilliant mind forever entwined With everything useful, so dealing With young men for me is a noble affair and once I get a boy I make him stay there A career I have built on the thighs and the biceps Of beautiful men; they worship, they taste full.... Now recently someone, a boy, I forget which, Left a book on my nightstand, a Hafez, in English Between his vape pen and a half-eaten sandwich I opened a page and my God it was major This Persian, this poet, this glorious lush Understood me completely without all the fuss He wrote of young cupbearers pouring with tanned hands Their robes flaring open, a woman understands... I ordered a GoPuff at quarter to three Some mixers, some olives, a battery The boy at the door was a Nubian dream With a thermal bag, slides, and a jawline supreme Gimme a tribute boy, a service, a sacramental pour To the kitchen find the flagon, no the big one, pour it slow” He said “lady I deliver chips”; I said “not anymore” He put down the bag and delivered after I locked the front door Oh yes he delivered me a bottle and .. eh.. a 10 incher -- nice! I opened my thighs and thought: the prophet's been precise By the second week the boy had settled into ritual He poured, I drank, he poured again; the cycle was habitual I read him some Hafez; he read me some back, In a voice like a cello made love to cognac Of history, magnificent, ruthless, and sprawling He gripped my headboard and I heard the Lord calling Or possibly that was the neighbors again Who can tell when you're channeling Hafez at ten He says “yes ma'am” and goes back to his duties.. I sat on his face like a sultan on rubies... There are days when God sends a GoPuff Who doesn't complain and who doesn't say stuff And doesn't ask questions and doesn't need feeding Except in the biblical sense; and he's reading My Hafez out loud while he’s.. hmm.. delivering It stands.. he's the best thing that GoPuff delivers He gives me the shakes and the sweats and the shivers He said you're my favorite of all destinations I said I'm not a destination.... I'm a shrine Rumi said lovers don't finally meet somewhere They're in each other all along, and there.. My Boy? Send more wine. and I need a dozen wine-pourer toys - which delivery service employs Cupbearer boys? Besides Gopuff? Call them

