Repentance = Looking Backward
You know how funny that it was in years
Gone by when films on reels could be re-run
Backwards? An actress’s glycerine tears
Could crawl back up into her eyes. What fun!
Ha Ha, funny, yes. And yet . . . sometimes life
Runs backwards, too. Verlaine found passion far,
Far beyond anything that his wife
Could ever have offered but (how bizarre!)
Ran back to her as soon as he could . . . then
Ran straight (!) back to the psychedelic boy.
Paul and Oscar ran straight back to their men.
Conversion’s crucifix is just a toy.
Forget all other methadonic pills
……………
…………………………………………..Bosie
Like Christ and drugs and verse. Grasp young male thrills.