Sexy Games

Bandages soaked in blood
unravel from my mouth.
First aid.
Call someone.
I did, but the bandages
were never wet enough.




My Magic Tortoise

Why bother? There
is no other yesterday.
I wait – intent on nothing –
a midwife with a horoscope,
searching for The Monster
that lamed my Magic Tortoise.

 
  Souvenir

One leap and I’m exhausted.
A smirk, my fastest car.
Calm foot, neurotic foot,
throttle yo-yo yo.
My triumph – canine teeth.

Vavoom!
Fortune

A field pox picked up at the fortune teller’s shed.
She saw visitors converging on the handle of my cup.
Still, I couldn’t scour one last, awkward, rotten corner –
a soggy toe nobbling the prizes in my head.




Paste

Smeared
I was small enough as
long as nothing grew.
The only way
to give some lip –
gasp, so the dead
translation team
could understand.




Reception

The party, a burden of foolish compliments –
vacant dancing, hands filled with playing cards;
the smoke of warmed-up hunger heaps
my plate, ready smiles invade my face.
 


The Dark Fairground