Sweet Pee-lease

Steeped in talk of William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski,
Kenda Jean, Gerty Stein and Tom Fucolaro, 
other girlfriends and boyfriends and those who loiter in hearts,
we feature a long Saturday in the sun
like Charles Baudelaire's 'Les Fleurs du Mal,'
our poetic story implicitly wonders whether the heritage
of own life and current culture can recover
from the dark taint of fascism, the internet, and more mores than we can handle.