I've got a girl who comes
around every night—
no matter what
her day has been like.
I bask in the glow of a
bride who's dependable. After she
binges, she purges—
so she never really changes.
This woman worships the very
festering earth that I walk on.
But she's clean. And careful
not to give in to those urges.
She's an angel, ghostly pale
and powdered smooth.
And so she prefers me bonesmooth
and bonewhite too.
We don't have to talk. When I
blink, she blinks. When I wink,
she wobbles. She doesn't drink
but doesn't mind if I do—as long
as we continue to dance
wild tarantellas on this
lawn by the heaving
sea until dawn. And as long as
the shimmering night tide
is jealous, keeps snapping its
million little pictures each second—
I'll look smug and satisfied. I'll lie
at night, my chin raised, my
gaze fixed to that one certain
place in the sky—like the most
requited dead man alive.
