Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Mr. Hyde Heaves the Rock

My shadow-self is my enabler,
and I am his. 
It’s convenient to be impotent.
Remember Oakland QB, Kenny Stabler?
Kenny Stabler can’t peddle viagra
because he died of colon cancer at 68,
just my present age—shadow-self enabler
that I am. But you’ll have to clean the aperture
on your camera lense
if you want to capture all of Kenny Stabler
stumbling back and slinging one of his signature
deadly-accurate passes to Biletnikoff—
affectionately dubbed the snake-handler.
But this is all dissembling
nonsense
just a lot of distracting verfluffda
more of my shadow-self’s enablement
of my wish to be never the matador, always the
bull (or vice versa), never (or always) reluctant
to confront the enabler of my coward-
self. How evasive was Kenny Stabler?