Heroin in Union Square
Do you keep all your boyfriends
in the box beneath your bed?
I know you keep at least a lover there,
but I don’t want to fall in love.
Over the opium ocean our
whispers ride, ride on sweet saline.
Till your name - “I’m Lucille,” Sour
goodbyes, I left when you looked away.
“Do you drink?”,
My grandmother’s drunken gaze glowed beautifully
in yours. I want to fall in love,
but not with you.
Spiderweb Anarchy
I am the unloved corner where the spider webs grow,
I am the heavy brown branch where tired crows cry;
I am the anarchy of a thousand hurried breaths
breathing life from the ruins of a thousand hurried deaths.
And I am where the spiders go to beat the beating black,
under the table where the moldy brown basket sits -
A little girl’s love was poured. But now she is gone.
A decade passes, then one more,
till no one feels sad to say her name,
or happy to hear it yelled across the chilly November wind
delicious apples
Not quite pear, I can do without.
If jelly means repulsed, I am fucking Smuckers.