i love the way i look on you

o my lovely lingerie
black lace teddy
the matching panties
minus
the crotch
the glistening glimmering
glass beads drape along
your right ankle
like mine
your long hair
uncurled
unlike
mine
i don’t paint my lips
ruby red
i don’t shave my eyebrows and
i don’t pencil them in
dark chestnut brown
and i don’t do eyeliner
powder the cheeks
on my face
and i don’t bathe in
jean nate
body splash but
that’s alright
cause when
i dress
up in
your
black tie
slithering between
my breasts complimenting
the joe boxers’
eye winkin’
back at ya
from the ass end and
when you whisper
in my ear and
tell me
i am
as beautiful as
rufus wainwright
then
i know
you love the way you
look on
me

 

BIG (mouth) boilcheek

over brand name chocolate donuts
3 minute bunn brew’d coffee
Winston fog-fills kitchen
the toilet flushes
by itself
every hour like
german cuckoo cocks
nobody pays attention
my sister discuss’
the neighbor
across the street
as if i care
as if i live there
as if i’d want to -other than visit

and
she’s popular
with the neighborhood
known as MS bitch
causes trouble
continually never
admits to
anything

today
she has a band aid
taped across her right cheek like
a blow-out patch
camouflaging a boil
as BIG as
mt st helen’s
ready to erupt

she announces:

so and so across the street
backhoe’d an empty built in pool hole
in his backyard
with garbage junk an old empty refrigerator
plus he invited other neighbors
to empty their rubbish and other useless items in that
hole but
no one would commit

so what i say

SO WHAT? she asks
didn’t you say those people were moving

nobody’ll ever know the difference
leave people alone ferchristsakei say

THAT REFRIGERATOR WILL
EVENTUALLY LEAK
FREON AND OTHER COOLANTS -
WATER CONTAMINATION
she yelps

hey that band-aid is slippin'
off that big boil i say

yea gotta get some boilease for
these things keep poppin back
on the cheeks she shrivels

then
she gets up gets the phone book
calls
the code enforcement committee
turns the neighbor’s ass into
the code enforcement committee

the code enforcement committee
van drives down the dirt road
parks in front of the neighbor’s house

she watches through the kitchen curtains
i watch her watch
the committee digs
a hole until
they find trash

the neighbor looks
pissed
stomps inside
the committee drives
away

the phone rings
that guy’s got til
tomorrow to dig
up all the trash and
get rid of it
announces a neighbor
through the line

he's starting the backhoe
my sister broadcasts

and i say to my sister
sis ya know i really think
you should go out
in public-----
without
your bandaid
and
the toilet flushes
again