Daughter of Uncle Sam
She is sucking coals hot coals burn stops for a moment movement reflected by a passing squad car red lights strobing howls painfully pathetic howls a baby somewhere in the dark naked hungry baby in the night she strokes fire coals burn her feet for the hell of it she does it for the hell beneath her rough shift pushup bra and good teeth with a raked 45 spreading fire in the house like any good citizen without complaint or cause hear the am radio news show about someone beautiful hot coals take them cold the dog tells her. |