Stephen Charles Lester The Most Powerful Force in the Universe And there are those who treat love (i.e., me)
not like a bottomless glass of nepenthe,
but as fractional-reserve currency.
My promises are backed by a mere tenthin the mattress of keeping. The way you lose
your purchase in climax is rather quaint
for a gesture without intrinsic value.
To Love! The oldest pyramid scheme, builtbefore they allowed unions. A plum pox,
aphid-vectored into compound deceit.
The death duty on a half-eaten box
of condoms and a fistful of receipts.Our cigarettes burn as the dollar tumbles.
Yet these ashes, lightly held, shall not crumble.