Your fedora looks stupid
and your hair is frizzy.
I hope you don’t think
you’re going to impress
the Starbucks barista
with that look,

Sister Ricardo preaches
the sanctity and struggle
of marriage. I laugh at her
extra-long lashes. 

Roy Rogers, Tim Holt, Gene

Autry, Lone Ranger—only

you and Hopalong Cassidy

wore the bad man’s ensign.

The moon belongs to mothers.
Her cylindrical cycles
both carved and curving.

Slim in the beginning
with angles sharp enough
to scythe hearts.