The moon

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We coupled like rabbits, me with hundreds,

hundreds with me, hundreds with hundreds

in those orgies on narrow beds at the baths.

Some nights their faces from the ‘80s rise —

                    Ken Ketwig

                    Stephen Simmons

                    Ramon Castaneda

                    Doyle Hardin

                    Michael Donatelli

                    Robbie Mittle

                    Peter Vom Lehn

                    Christopher Morrissey

                    Terry Cook …

Did you know there’s a rabbit, not a man,

in the moon? Battering with his pestle,

pounding the new rice in his mortar,

crushing, releasing the elixir of life.