All for the Asking

" All for the Asking "

for Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " At Once Romantic
and Commonsensical "

At once romantic
and commonsensical
remaining
essentially locked
in sterile delinquency
with troubling greetings
punctuated
by a dangling shard
of alarm as a problem
of subplots
in an anonymous
peer-review process
Not to be confused
as a curtain
raiser fairing
only
slightly better
than wishing
in vain
for a paper
airplane
to fly someday
over
the rainbow
with puns
and wordplay
showing
off anyway
that goes
without saying
all for the asking
in a bubble bath
Sure to emerge
visible
and palpable
with the feel
of gravel
as just
one more
habit
on a care-
fully
constructed
path
gradually
revealing
a view
of a square
gathering
momentum
in a romantic
landscape
of volcanic sand
and the hiss
of an aerosol can...