Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Mirror

Suck down that nicotine you swinish pig

I hope it kills you before the butcher

Can sever your blackened throat. Deter

The hate of yourself with another cig

And pollute the air with senséless speak

While your chapped gums excrete your one virtue.

Take another tote and douse your taboo,

Your second heart now lost in sands of weak.

A squalid climb, rising ever higher

Up to your apartment. You shed dank dress

And dreary garment, release smoky mess

And a sigh like an untunéd lyre.

Slip into the shower, regain esteem.

Wash that ash off your breasts slim Virginia,

Clear the treason, transform to the pin-up

We (all) desire. The pure, cleansing steam

Covers supple body in benign shroud.

Beauty left, inhibitions plucked gently

from your lips 'til three words I utter thee.

Beckoned, you emerge clad in heaven's cloud.

Your true self reflected in the mirror–

until decay, the image I desire.


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