Objectively speaking ‘Hera’ is a beautiful name
even if in formal situations you introduce yourself
forthwith: ‘Lindsay Bird’. A half lie
propagated before the whole
in which you deliver sincerely the lines:
“I am savant in the breeder business
I’m re-elongating pugs’ noses.”
With your hair pulled back
a nondescript audience—
nodding—fails to recognise you
Henceforth
one day I’d like to recite
a muffled myth of Oedipus
to you as Frank O’Hara’s cum
moves down my back—
with an apple in my mouth,
and through no opiate
I still think Keats would be up for it.