Parable & Analogy Search the Bedroom for Their Clothes
This will only end in tears, she
said…
Let’s cut to the chase, & start
crying now.
I don’t want to live in a world, he
said,
where the vampires aren’t French,
lesbian,
proud. I can have this cake, & eat
it too,
she said, for the Queen told me I
could…
& just like fire would, he sang,
I’m burning,
I’m burning, I’m burning for you. I
won’t
remove the ribbon from my neck, she
said.
Ask me for anything but that. I want
to hold hands in the line for Hell,
he said…
though I know these days it’s frowned
upon.
Sailor, all you know are knots, she
said,
her hand at the hollow of her throat.
Fuck untying it, said Alexander
