your scary bearded lover at the circus

lions and tigers and bears, oh my,
and me in the circus of love and New York City. 

the modern heart is a circus, too.
one, two, three.
yeah, yeah, thieving songs. 

snakes gonna hiss, nigga,
this is the letting down of the tree.

why am?
writing soft.
burning glass.

trouble comes to everyone daring to be a muse.

football trees.
beach grin, gin.
nails, stuck in potatoes.

let's go to the place of the dreaming books,
and be one of them.

I see Leland, the lion tamer,
from previous poems.
life is short yet long.

let's make love in a library.

writing hard about love. 
sing a song for me,
protect the sun with more poetry.
hours are meant to be mistaken,
while 
this is the place where we laid
for a day.