Social Contract

On March the third
I composed a document
duly signed and agreed
by two parties
making my landlady
into my niece, and myself
into her uncle. Voluntary
Adoption Certificate.
There is some kind of paper
version of love in that.
The libido oil
flows through some mysterious
channels of need:
cheap
but precious, one of the
great ironies of the world
binding a union
from a joke.