By Misti Velvet Rainwater Date: 16 November 1998
because I swish bourbon and brood deep
his melody is reduced to utter anxiety
       unnecessary noise
no man has the power to assemble
     this toy angel
no charitable magic
  can annihilate this shadowy abyss
your blessed thrusting, while charismatic,
   is not enough
to light me up
      stoic and self-destructive
             I confront sex
       an indifferent victim