Commercial for Viagra

Pleasure lost
or pleasure promised,
that's what I miss,
poetic enthusiasm.

What happened to the promises
after the big magnetic eraser
cleaned out the core of my days?

Oh there used to be promises
that cooled and turned into dreams,
privatized into the same silence
as dying. Says the TV:

It is pleasure lost
or pleasure promised
that pumps upthe poetic enthusiasm.

"Viagra bonzo vazoo!" says one elder
seated on a bench in the park in Spring. That does it.
"Bally badoola?" replies the other, incredulous
but eyes alight. They leap at each other

in the womb of their talk.
Animated money
dances around smiling broadly
as the screen goes dark.