ringing up service
from the monkey room
* brandy alexander toot sweet *
drifting sobbing screaming
through seconal sweat
curtain call
exit stage left
quivering horns carrying aloft
the sweet scent of agave
on the summer breeze
malodorous alleyways
where twofold shadow
hid acts unspeakable
sliding from prude to lewd
actions logged only in the
smeared diaries fit for a
booze puffed runt
until the sourness set in
beaten by sailors in Santa Monica
raped by a beach boy in Mexico
until dried out like a corn husk doll
a glass animal
born to be smashed
words words words to paste it all up
thoughts surgically altered in twin time
paid for over and over
the box office returns sharpened
by whetstone dried out
like a corn husk doll
nailed under the floorboards
a frail animal
born to die
cradled with soft hands
but dripping through the grip
a cocktail without glass
one last drink
monkeying with the biographer’s aim
hand held
deliberate
chewing the seconal stopper one handed
fumbling for the drink
when it slipped fell shattered
a gasp unbidden
invited the final nail
not intended not welcome not planned
but still — dramatically apt
a reflexive giggle sealed the deal
cackling catharsis
exit stage left
bury me
at sea
with
Hart
Crane
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