Evanescent like the scent of decay I was fading from the race When, in despair, my darkest days Ran amok and forged Her face From the fairest of handmaidens to A slick perverted wraith
Nymphetamine
Heaving midst narcissus On a maledict blanket of stars She was all three wishes Sex, sex, sex
A lover hung on her deathrow I was hooked on Her disease Highly strung like Cupid's bow Whose arrows hungered meat And the blinding flare of passion In the shade of narrow streets Where their poison never rationed All the tips they left in me
Two tracks Bric-a-brac Something passed between us Like a bad crack Upward-lit I'd met another kind
Of rat In fact With every Rome inside Licked and ransacked... She haunted at the corners of my mind
In black Cataracts Wouldn't whitewash away Her filthy smoke stack She burnt me like a furnace For my future suicide