at moments when the need comes
the urge
the rush,  people press their lips together
and open wide and rub bare skin against bareness.
it is not for this
        stirring though it may be
that yours must die.  not today.

this is old
like people get
but this does not wrinkle
and won't.

the reason sits
up to his neck in warm thick blood
taking nourishment
while a strong hand rubs against
smooth manufactured plastic.
it's the plastics and the oldness of dust
making rubble.