42: "A TRIPLEX" by Duane Vorhees (Sunday, August 16)

A TRIPLEX

1. BUILDERS CODE

When architects
think of sex
do they use 2X4s
as metaphors?
Well, as Sullivan said
(who made the
1st sky-phallic,
obviously-scraper):

FORM
FOL
LOWS
FUN
CTION

so -- none
of this uni/bi/homo
biz.

And, as for
sex in groups
(singular houses, plural love)
well, LESS IS MORE
--that was Gropius,
and he should know
(or
was it Mies van der Rohe?)
(But, what does it matter,
after all? The two
both used the same
bau house,
didn't they?
--do I need
to draw you
a blue
print?)

2. IF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
WROTE POEMS AS WELL
AS HE BUILT THEM
(a found poem)

no house
should
be
on a hill
it
should
never
be
on anything
the house
should
be
of the hill
and
belonging
to it
and hill
and house

can live together
each the happier
for the other

3. JOINER

A woman
(as a hole-centered person)
will mortise with
a man.

But whether this is
on the basis
of the person
or the hole
makes all the difference.

There will be a lifetime of nighttimes ahead.