The things I do for that miserable little girl, with a crown of sorrows offer the sore wealth of the world. A black portrait painted of a naked, violent scene; hung to high got my poor eyes to see
but that's the perfume; that's the kiss. those the petals which match my lips
this the haze which glows your hips the ebb of honey which sweetly drips.
the pool of iron below my first the gums that, splitting, tongue painful bliss
see in myself her myopic squint theme of present hell, streams of blood & spit
I shook and stoke from her, cursed to keep it from a body too young to have secrets Come barber and priest; hand me to the eventual On the chair painted yellow, shout: "this is sensual!"
The things I do for that miserable little girl possessor of all the hells I succumb in this world Supple in hearth, slight in both frame and years; could see past my deeds, see into my fears