Temptation has a Beautiful Face and Scrubbing a Hardwood Floor

In the poem "Temptation has a Beautiful Face", I enjoyed the references to color and music throughout the poem. Color and various musical styles and sounds are great tools to set mood and create a vivd scene. I especially enjoyed:
"Her brown eyes sang the blues with joy"
in which Derek not only used color to describe the woman, but used color to describe emotion all in one line.
"We were heavy metal rock n’ roll with a harpsichord,
slow mellow jazz accompanied by screaming violins"
In these lines, Derek uses music to describe an obvious clashing, yet for some reason I could see them working together completely in some dysfuncttional sort of way.
The mentioning of whole and broken images is wonderful, maybe you could develop these more in the poem. Also possibly clarify the signifigance of dancing in the poem, to me the meaning seemed to shift and not remain concrete through the poem.

In the second poem, "Scrubbing a Hardwood Floor", the first thing that struck me were the allusions to Brave New World, a dystopian work of literature that immidately reinforced the mood and message of this poem.
"alpha’s and gamma’s were never meant to be together,
and the soma has all gone bad,
but how you do love to abuse your power"
In Brave New World, people of the society are hatched and raised into different classes, Alphas are the higest class, and still remain free thinkers. Gammas were two below Alphas and had no control over thought. Classes This immediatly displays this sort of intangiable love occuring in Derek's poem. Soma in the novel is the only absolute source of happiness, and for Derek to mention it has gone bad, there is no absolute happines between the two people in this poem.
The only real problem I could see in this poem is some tense issues that may confuse the reader such as:
"like the burlesque dancer in bright neon sitting next to me,
caressing my thigh on the bus to Port Coquitlam.
No stops and nothing but the iridescent night in front of us.
So nervous, so nervous and she was dressed in red"