Always to long for someone else’s gift—
To blow that blistering alto sax, to lift
……….Into the flash-bulbed air
For a reverse slam dunk while stunned guards gawk,
To have a punster’s cheek or porn star’s cock,
……….To capture, share by share,
Gold-plated Wall Street fame, to meditate
Beyond nirvanic depths or radiate
……….Beatitudes of prayer
Like any frescoed saint, even to make
A perfect triple-decker dark-fudge cake
……….Or master the éclair—
Means answering a roguish shout we follow
Down some smashed-bottle alley to a hollow
……….Recess, a doorway, where
If luck has tailed us on that lonely walk,
When we knock, because we have to knock,
……….No one will be there.