Take me fast, quiet,
two guards at every door.
Wrap me tight
in your
extravagant straitjacket,
where the strangling is clean
and silent, since when I kiss,
it will not be as a sister.
You have seen my complete dossier.
I would have made a great man,
but I am a woman,
subtle but effective.
Do not toss me, deranged,
in your landfill;
it is more palatable to give
me something rich
and strange, tribal,
like a Viking funeral.
like a Viking funeral.
tk, from my chapbook "Unpressed"
R.A.D. curled up on the steps with my book...
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