The sugar is still fizzing in my bloodstream
It's 4am
I'm Rose pink
Slow down girl, slow down girl
Pour some water, take a breath
Cool your hands in the kitchen sink
Sit down girl, sit down girl
I take off my silver shoes
Lay them in the light of the moon
Still catching, still refracting
the things I no longer need from you
I think about the girl I am laying to rest alongside them
How I wish I could pluck pages
From her book
Before I close her
Like she was written in invisible ink
Darling
I'm fading, I'm fading
I make arrangements for the funeral
A trip away, to a man
who is not her lover
But he has the light
And I have the gasoline
To burn away this sobbing girl
into a new woman.
The Other Woman
red as a flame
she burns too
The woman who
was grilled like a steak
In the burning heat of your hate
In the sweltering grief
The sweet relief you felt
pulling the pearls of innocence
from around her neck
Watched
as she scattered
across the Living Room floor
clattered and rolled
into the cracks beneath the door
I let them vanish
My sanity too
from rose pink
into a crushing velvet blue
