By Jane Barnes
81, long in bed weak arm
Spend the 18 hours alone
Eating oatmeal cookies
And eleven pills and to
Pass the time I watch Love
Is Blind Germany, UK, Japan,
Sweden, New York. Pick the
Smartest thru my wall. The
Phone love see romance in
Tahiti live in a balconied
Apartment with my chosen
One. I know what I want
Chat wit. Dark Gemini Hair
From losing Paul in foolishness
Joe who wasn’t mine in any
Country but these loves all stay
Jane Barnes has published work in BWQ for more than 14 years, and has poems in Gay & Lesbian Quarterly, Ploughshares, River Styx, The Massachusetts Review, and Wrongdoing. Her work appears in the anthologies Bi Any Other Name and Getting Bi.