POVERTY BADGE

Redemption. Found?

How can I tell

See through smudge

Survive smears?

New pain. Ancient pain.

Everything hurts.

You never leave.

Chief wound.

Kitchen universe rub out.

Incidents blur into one

Gorgeous fight.

I sanctify slaughter, swine

My pearls so well.

Hire me to steal

Mother your tribe

Whitewash collisions.

Did you eat crow?

Do the required thing,

Resplendent in a martyr’s coat,

Beyond reproach in glaring

Red numbers.

Our woody fruit burst,

Prevailing discovery,

Insensible bed, small

Household forsook.

For sale. Black

Corsette. Never worn.

You and your vapid skanks.

Fellatio’d in the green room

Another score before grace

Our happy hour in shreds.

We may find miles and miles

But the door-poor walk in half.