Pillows, Bubbles, Poodle

by Neil Flowers

     Her bed
     scattered with
     many fluffy
     pillows to which he
     strongly objects
     aforesaid
     pillows being
     in aggregate
     contrary to
     his Zen
     allegiances /
     innate male
     resistance to
     soft fluffy
     (zafu okay)

     dry laconic being
     his preferred mode
     the Western say
     creak
     of saddle leather
     showdown
     on Main Street
     and add
     to that mix
     of objection
     bubble baths
     and poodles

     all the which
     by her
     curvations and
     demonstrations
     wins him

     over to these
     her various
     arrangements

     So that:
     he scratches behind
     the poodle’s
     ears