The Comforts Of The Night

Saint Augustine prayed nightly to be freed
of 'the glue of lust', or nocturnal emissions.
He did not even pray for a person
to be glued to, in affirming companionship.
His prayers were answered
by his coming to believe that since
he could not control his emissions
the way he controlled his prayers,
by intent, his ejaculations were not sin,
and his prayers were aspirations to absolute celibacy.
aspirations which were far as beyond him
as grace was beyond human virtue.

As an everyday wanker I would say
to my maker of the nightly emanations
that haunt my imagination
'Thank you for them being where they are,
in my head, and for the grace of what I see
not being real, nor in front of me wanting
breakfast in the morning. Amen'.
I admit I feel uneasy about cohabiting.

The nightly emanations I trust the most
are from the BBC, World Service Radio
telling me things that I did not know,
that when I wake up I won't remember.

In Conversation With A Friend

I said  'I would hate to be divorced,
because recognize all too well the pain
that would follow from the process
of divesting the devalued goods
of the memories of the marriage.
I would hate the grief that preceded
the final decree absolute.'.

 Ever the free spirit, and ascetic he replied
'Well, I would hate the idea of marriage,
for how it encloses people in those goods'.

We concurred that the best joinings
and separations are set in ideas that can change,
which are limited by mutual agreement.
We both accepted that we ought not be joined,
or owned, by our abundance of possessions.