MATHEMATIZING THE RELATIONSHIP by Richard Barrett

apple on the table
varnished flat plane
grain visible
- no acryllic covering

the centre of the table
was where I placed that apple
bringing together
the straight-line and the curve
(with one eye shut)

intercourse of angles
where legs meet table-top
is why he's arrive drunk at her house
(too drunk to do anything but
listen to music or
watch t.v. -
he'd sleep on the couch)

entirely predictable marriage
at ninety degrees
yet a still more interesting
conjoining

so I put my
on the
after she'd left (for Cambridge)
and thought
about
taking
a
bite