Harpy

are you willing to forget my past if I say
what you don't want to hear?

Lost footing marching
    in circles and stepping
in the same shit
    I thought I'd left behind my
drummer
has changed and I can't seem
       to find

the beat I step on the feet

of friendship fast growing emotion bones
    ache making
skeletons in my closet
    jangle hanging me
       disoriented from subway bowels urine
    smells fast feet a stranger
in the strangest land lucky people
    make friends madison
       is two blocks away
I bend to the phone
    seductively puckering to its handle
mirror for my chapstick
    hellhound

stop biting at my heels
the beat of my drummer appeals to your tastebuds
you're the string on the fin
       ger of my mind reminding me
    what I want
       who I wronged dumping my trash back
on my lap million dollar man
    my man I am a wom
       an and can
          tell you what it's like
    to carry your power
    between your legs
I'll whisper in your ear and slither
    out of your bed

when you were a gorging pubescent larva
how many girls replaced the bubblegum
    on your bedpost
because your voice was slicker than snot?

or are you the silent type
hating every long hair short hair
skirt pumping heel wearing
    bitch
that walked by
    and ignored you
because you were a       l o s e r?
you're the only one
who's ever been ditched ignored dumped on

I pity your ignorance
    ignoring
your own drummer the string
on the finger of our minds reminding us
    power is all in our heads.
 

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