Love traipses into the alley, lipsticked and blood shot.
The riddle of the amphetamine dream
half grounded in the weight of motion pictures.
Under the dinosaurs of gossip in the sky
the mermaid disintegrates darkly
into a colony of rats. The mother’s tragic hand
cracks her knuckles in the skyscraper jungle
as the calcium sun whitens the day
like hungry eyes—a model for dusty filaments.
The buildings are statues of gods. Zeus leaks
down Broadway. The rats chime underground.
Love's nerves get tangled on street corners.
