Friday, May 23, 2008

Now and Then: Picture on the Internet

Picture on the Internet

I saw your picture on the internet
Thought he was joking so you took the bet
You called his bluff
But nobody came to the window

Showed him the scar tissue raised on your wrist
Said, “Baby, I need you and it could come to this”
In the back of his mind was a thought best to hold
Why did the chicken ever cross the road?

I saw your picture on the internet
Thought it a rumor until I found it
A second life
I stared all night at the window

He made you feel like you were somewhere else
Said, “Baby, I need you to feel at peace with myself”
He’s dying inside but he wears daddies cologne
Ketamine communion he gives you to atone

I saw your picture on the internet
Brokenly vulgar in your black fishnets
Your vacant look
A thousand miles from the window

Told me the story about when you were ten
Playing doctor with the boys in the bushes by the spring
The water made a sound almost like singing birds
Heard it again when he took off your shirt

I saw your picture on the internet
Provoked a strange feeling to protect
Staining the words
The fogging up of the widow



We fear the flesh because of its command
The malice in the chalice crushes the palace in your hand
He strokes oblivion as you swallow his pride
Then desecrates you to forget he’s alive

I saw your picture on the internet
Thought he was joking so you took the bet
You called his bluff
But nobody came to the window




September 4, 2006

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