Cassiopeia trumps
a lump in the
breast.
The story of how a Chinese Princess
warped a hound
into a toy
wrinkles your porcelain; it drowns
in sunshine.

II

tomorrow comes like a lost fiend.
but up above, all the reasons for calamity
gather and drum.
long slits in the noose record the rope
*that short-sheets the bedlam.
but nothing is as gorgeous
as an ugly
joke.

and I'm a Scorpio.

So now you
know.