Joking

"The meaning of life is far from us
        as we grow in the soil,"
               says my friend, whose
                       middle name is Joy.
She may be joking,
        but she's not really joking.

Soup Unsatisfying

                    Flashy starving love
            is thin soup, soup unthickened,
                            or thickened with grains of salt.
 I will launch it from my
            post-American mouth
                                        and love everything that
                                                                it is not.