Green
		
		The dawn was apple-green,
		   The sky was green wine held up in the sun,
		The moon was a golden petal between.
		
		She opened her eyes, and green
		   They shone, clear like flowers undone
		For the first time, now for the first time seen.
		
		
		Retort to Jesus
		
		And whoever forces himself to love anybody
		begets a murderer in his own body.
		
		
		Commandments
		
		When Jesus commanded us to love our neighbour
		he forced us either to live a great lie, or to disobey:
		for we can't love anybody, neighbour or no neighbour, to order,
		and faked love has rotted our marrow.
		
		
		Glimpses
		
		What's the good of a man
		unless there's a glimpse of a god in him?
		And what's the good of a woman
		unless she's a glimpse of a goddess of some sort?
		
		
		To Women, as Far as I'm Concerned
		
		The feelings I don't have I don't have.
		The feelings I don't have I won't say I have.
		The feelings you say you have, you don't have.
		The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.
		
		The feelings people ought to have, they never have.
		If people say they've got feelings, you may be pretty sure they
		   haven't got them.
		
		So if you want either of us to feel anything at all
		you'd better abandon all idea of feelings altogether.
		
		
		Intimates
		
		Don't you care for my love? she said bitterly.
		
		I handed her the mirror, and said:
		Please address these questions to the proper person!
		Please make all requests to head-quarters!
		In all matters of emotional importance
		please approach the supreme authority direct!
		So I handed her the mirror.
		
		And she would have broken it over my head,
		but she caught sight of her own reflection
		and that held her spellbound for two seconds
		while I fled.