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MADONNA OF THE BAD TIMING


after two months
longing and expecting
a warm night under
a green quilt with
someone who gets
sick    she touches
herself all night
and the following
morning    goes
out    eats spaghetti
mid day only to
come back in un
dressed then finds
the white car in
the drive way
just as the bed's
been ripped open
like a gnawed
deer and her hair's
half in the sink
that's when he
wants her to
go out and eat
then wants to
eat her only she's
not so hungry
now tho he was
always the one she
thinks of no matter
whose hands whose
skin is where
she dreams his

 

Last Updated: December 27, 2000