“Desire Lines” [by David Shapiro]

David Shapiro describes the following as "a poem I received in a dream once. I couldn't believe I could rhyme in a dream!
It was supposedly a popular rock song (in the dream!)"

Desire Lines

I can see
I cannot see
Keats in surgery in the l9th century
  I
can see
  I cannot see
Mars and Aphrodite
dancing in the net while the
gods played and laughed at
     the
castanet

  I can see
  I cannot see
Keats and Fanny 
Allen Ginsberg in
l953
I can see
I cannot see
   An adult
   Is a raindrop
   A
raindrop
   Is an adult
I can see
I cannot see
Lou Andreas Salome
and
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mars and Botticelli
Keats and Fanny B
Allen
and Peter Orlovsky
Elizabeth and "and"

I can see
I cannot see
An
adult
Is just an instrument
     A landscape pornography
That hill is a
hole
I walk on desire lines
You walk on desire
    I can see
    I
cannot see
 
— David Shapiro