Power

You will be sanctified

or forsaken at my choosing

My legacy?

Fucking you up for life.

In Memoriam

When I’m alone I sleep

in a bed that’s been made before I climb in

and everything must stay just so

or I become a frazzled nerve

You tangle yourself in my sheets

the way you do my life

So that you entwined in my things

and my home is slumber and sunbeams

in peaceful chaos, in this nest

An extension of each other, we are tethered

When you leave you repel and twist yourself out

Ball my linens into a small corner of the bed

And when I return to it

for several nights I sleep in it, untouched

Cradled in the mess you made

Aim True

Your honey tongue emits

sweet sticky words

that poison my heart

like a doe in the wood

I would follow you home

all the same

but you’d rather see

me fall and squirm

Oh, how they praise you

an astounding kill

what a beauty

what skill you’ve displayed

You’re the toast of the town

are you known

for adding insult to injury?

you should be

Fan Club

I love the way you smell when we go to bed

and you’ve had your evening cigarette

your evening beer and your evening strum

Cologne is useless in our house

and your mouth is a carnival of my favorite candy

Do you ever tire of the way I sparkle

When you walk in the room?