Quartersawn Moon

They stood there in the gloaming, the old cowboy and the young girl from California. He had pointed out the quarter Moon and the brilliance of Venus in the southern Kansas sky.  He was about to comment on how you can also see the phases of Venus when she pre-empted:
"The reason we see the quartersawn Moon is not because of its light, but because of its darkness which is caused by the shadow of the Earth," She said.
"That is a beautiful thought, I never thought of it that way," then, thinking in his mind, "Are we having an intimate moment here?"
She answered his thought out loud, "You are a lot older than I am," and proceeded to point out constellations: Cassiopeia, Cygnus, Ursa Major. She pointed out Polaris and said, "That star tells us which way to go."
He scuffed his cowboy boots on the wet grass, thinking about stars and how they appear so close to each other and yet are light years apart.
"You see that blond girl over there?" She turned him by his shoulder toward the others.
"Yep."
"She's my partner," The term partner having a much different meaning than the cowboy had in his mind, but he got the connection.
"Well, you and I have another thing in common, other than the Moon, Venus, the stars and the beautiful Kansas sky." He turned and walked toward the horse barn.
"What's that?" She asked, turning also to leave.
"We both like pussy."

On The Re-Beginning Of Time

Already pimped by the rolled back clock,
Orion doesn't care wtf time it is,
The Family Jewels hang there just the same,
Big Dog snappin' and snarlin' at them;
Women on ships point their astrolabia at the Dog Star,
Then switch to GPS, only to find that the Poles have changed,
The Republicans now in the lead;
While clocks spin backwards for an hour,
Dylan falls off of his barstool again,
Getting bourbon and egg on his face;
While October leaves fall into Black Neurotic November
Plastic bags that are donated to the National Dump,
Chicago finds out what time it really is,
But doesn't like the answer;
Little kids unable to Trick or Treat,
Put razor blades in apples for their Mother,
Longing for El Dia de Los Muertos;
While Lou Reed plays T'ai Chi on his Death Bed,
Time is definitely not on his side but has his back,
Do we all now agree that Time has come today?