Have you ever watched a woman bounding —
Don’t look at her,
Have you ever watched a woman eating —
Don’t listen to those gristles being masticated,
And don’t set your eyes to the pulp,
To the washboard abs of the sunny sky
When what you want is the darkness,
Or the light of a man who went to California
And went too far,
Charged with electricity from eels in the bay
And now standing and projecting
Amid beings which know but do not aid.