The Cadaver Stares
zebra black 1947 (ny)
my name written
in her uninhabited stare
beckoning for cockamamie
red summers dark kiss
like concussed
dropped video loops
slippery mouth
flute song
transiting star to star
and bugle horns
of gravity bend light
through her
white bones
velvet kiss
in asylum of sparks
splays queen fatale
with raptur'd eyes
posing in the shape
of a switch blade orgasm
every slit a shiver
her foot just so
she minds her dance
in a dooms day skirt
flouting a royal
procession of red
while a black rat cupid
rapes my psyche
de thing a fy me
she said
make death risque
like a dead end with a martini
and a ghastly
vermillion mouth
go a head she sneered
take a stab at it
maniac Venus
shakes off her blood
with shimmie shoulders
a honey comb tongue
she
a lyrical cadaverous stare
married to a hole
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