Incinerator 20
She's
got her fingers in her hair raking down
down, her ears are
wired 20-watts to a lime-green incinerator and nipped lips, she's
grating and churning to the noise like an eggbeater on strike in ripped
garters. She's got holes the size of Texas – they're always
telling her stitch
your damn garters
but they don't know how the two-by-four safety pins pierce her skin
(in the shape of stars). She's seven minutes late and four minutes
down, she's a cigarette wedged and burning between starch-stained
sheets, she's onomatopoeia. Sex Pistols beating, heating she's
got too much mascara peeling like a (cracked condom) store-bought.
Listen. Think she's caught
in the incinerator by now
and all you see are sliced legs waving but for all we know she's
only 20 decibels of Amazing
Grace.