By Misti
Date: 2002 Nov 07
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Your Love Life is About to Change Forever

she rises above HeLL
all pink and blue
one nipple pointing at Saturn
the other pointing at Fat Albert
with rainy blue cloud hair
and green shadowed black mascara coated eyes
downcast
contemplating
being alone and rootless...
Betty Boop is looking down from above
arms thrown high
showing the garter on her left thigh
while Popeye downs a can of spinach
and '50s teenagers pretty and flushed
merrily cram their limber bodies
inside a phone booth
there are so many people to call!
so many people who will eagerly answer!

and she is sitting at a bar with an empty glass
and a blue anchor tattoo
black hair and matching fingernails
wishing she looked more like
Reese Witherspoon
thinking she'll never find her Ryan Phillipe
while above her a poorly coiffed blonde
stuck inside a '50s hell advertisement
beams as she holds up an Electrolux
vacuum cleaner
all shiny and
purposeful

then there is the naked doll with the huge head
holding a little devil in her right hand
and a little angel in her left
looking at the devil
(do i dare?)
how
deep
must
one
dig
Gidget is chatting and doesn't have
the answer
Mr. Potato Head is beaming in his yellow
spectacles
staring blindly at a gigantic bottle
of Jose Cuervo

and she is from the Upper East or West side
which ever is more upper
trying to hold her happy Republican family
together for one false shot
and Tragedy and Comedy leer through the smoke plumes
people on the street stare
transfixed
at the burning buildings
not noticing the enormous
frosted sprinkled donut
suspended above their horrified heads

and she is laughing with her cleavage
in black and white
and Billie Holiday is screaming
(we're all love junkies)
hang on to your spirit
so you'll make
a good
haunt.