By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 19 September 2000
Boo With Bad Breath
fresh tingling SCOPE words of love
cooed in your ear made you giggle
You Smell So Sweet
You Are So Sweet
Good Enough to Eat
my feet so tiny
my hair so shiny
pictures didn't do my blue eyes justice
and, oh, those perfect
porcelain
delicate hands
then monster me came out to play
BOO with bad breath
and warts
and claws
and the house of straw
was blown away
POOF
I'm an ugly girl
I've got hatred blooming inside me
like a black twisted rose
you can kiss me
I'll bleed
I need Jesus and Oliver Stone and Daddy Warbucks
and Luke Skywalker and Rocky Balboa and Chris Considine
rolled into one walking talking manifestation of
my primal fears and desires
scratch that
I need Japhy or Dean or a gay hairdresser or Mr. Bill
I need to eke out an existence as
a lounge singer
in the Peruvian mountains
I need to flavor my lies with gin
you can hold me
I'll crumble
and stumbling blind
make my way into the closet
and say
Yes I'm Here
and I'm Okay Really
I'm silly
and hopeless
and there are leering leagues
looming
over
buried
treasure...
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