The Man-Child Chronicles: Selected Poems

My parents take long walks together in the evenings,
and it is clear that theirs is a good and full life.

I'm riding an empty subway car to an engagement with fresh
strangers and pray tonight won't be like the night before...
and the one before and the one before and the one before.

My mother power shops at the supermarket daily.
My father can spend three days with the Sunday paper.

I envy their satisfaction.
I stand in awe of their pleasure capacity.

They've found all they needed in moder...