Rachel
Vibrating head through auric field
Soft skin tightly wound to cutting bone
Blushing cheeks a taunting ruse
Doe-eyed glare with parted pout
Sable locks unfurling further riddles
Proving herself a most suitable muse
A sweated mop of tousled curls
Carved a cool silhouette across
The hazy photon curtain blur
Through which a strange hand
Calloused by cigarette and string
Proudly extended itself to her
Thwarted into lilted void a droning
Lit up brightly by arena torches
City to city feigning delight
Her long, bony fingers
Tackied by mousse and spirit elixirs
Beat together in applause each night
Soon blood traded place
For endearments in her
Crooked lipstick mouth
Plaster crumbling kissing fist
Some sudden
click
The sobered cause for pious doubt
No more of that “faggot junkie trip.”
Left to graze the underbelly
Of the West Side Highway
Sniffing for cock n’ skag
To carry her another day
Toward a birth rite demise
Ever so common for girls like Ray