By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 12 April 1999

Swan Song

he would like to turn me into a 
    Jennifer
    Lisa
    Traci
    or Amy
he would like to blink his eyes and transform me
   into a white bread
          silver spoon fed
          Vidal Sassoon head
          debutante crowd pleaser
  with Daddy wrapped around 
      my pinky
and Mommy blowing me kisses from
    her Junior League meetings
  and Big Bro at Harvard
  and Lil Sis at Yale

      he would like to weave a spell
       that would remove
          the clouds
       from my eyes
       dry up my Cherokee blood
        dilute it with Germany
            or England
       and then
      for good measure
    dip me
  in powdered sugar
       and serve me
     to his demons