The young man comes to terms with the seduction
Or how to get over empty suitors
Or holy sh*t this is really happening.

Stumbling into 7-11, 4 days off cigarettes, Richard the Heavy Hearted, sees a poster for Camel cigarettes with the (radically amplified) slogan, "Pleasure to Burn," printed over an illustration of a harlot, of sorts.

"How’s your husband," the clerk asks, to the Mrs. who just walked in craked out and forgotten.

Seriously there’s no point in fighting this. God’s got this whole lot wrapped up and ready to go.

Ready to go.

this game we play
for what it's worth
does have high stakes
beyond this earth

for what but here does not pass away
all of it every day

the caravan
and silly sand
the simpleton
that seek to win.

how duped we are
this whole long lot
to chase this dust
treasures lost-- forgot.