29 Sep 2005, 2:30am
Writing
by David


One : Two

The door is a gate. The dead

gate leads open to a meadow

which presides over a fence. The

fence is full of ivy, and blown

brown. [Brown mirror, green orb,

blue atom.] Beyond that

there is a house, and upstairs,

a small girl’s room. She is

alone: Her fuzzy pink shirt. Her

tie-dyed night-shirt. Which is

to be soft. Which is touched.

In the microphone, she says

pushed on a swing by a man.

Or organized by a train.

Cottonwood, this late September,

what is it that you want to see?

Man’s dressing room. Squalid.

No stars around. No room.

Dim though an excess of flash.

He is a pioneer, this one.

You can hear him moan Lolita

and when one comes he

gathers her youth from a cup.

She is soft and then ridiculous.

She is a little drunk.

She shivers, shifting from side

to side on her silken feet. She

is smitten like a witch.

But then she looks like

Dorothy Gale. Where are her

red shoes? Oh Judy Judy Judy

now it’s too late to fight.