if not now, when?

No love? Let us make it!

Done. Next? Let us make

care, tenderness, courage,

jealousy, glut, lies.

~#14

Do you know what you lacked?

That dose of contempt without which

you cannot flip a woman on her back

to make her flounder like a turtle,

to make the heartless fool realize:

she cannot flip back on her own.

~#15

Why is the word yes so brief?

It should be

the longest,

the hardest,

so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,

so that upon reflection you could stop

in the middle of saying it.

~#17

~vera pavlova, if there is something to desire