Sonya, a terrible street-walker
& bitter actress---
disguises herself as Tanya,
who as noted, cannot act;
a Jesus-freak from the noisy 70's---
George left Georgia for Crimea
& never returned his limbs
to George Grosz---Sonya claims
her grandmother blew him;
don't believe her at all---

Harriet keeping her loose limbs in a sack; Johnny walking w/ Jesus
& Paul & Mary smoking
Macanudos, the priestess locked
in the barn almost every night;
There is only one man
left in the dusty village,
(daesh having moved on w/ her heavy period,
as many wives as his fathers
have left him, one named Ruth;
the others wailing)

---her period moving from
within & flows outward---

she saw a red tablet in the rain,
her green mother entering space foretold by  ******-addicted ancestors
whose mirrors are living eyes;
archaeological revolutions
ending the Roman Empire,
We who walked out of the sun,
her hijab aflame---proclaim
therefore a Muslim girl who flies
to Elijah the casual fascist,
Sonya's sister's sun-browned skin
so like the mythical Israelis
who never existed---

an entire race of people
invented whole cloth
by sun-blinded nomads;
Sonya wanders dizzy
everyday from Stalingrad
to Kiev I suppose;
the poisoned painters on the roof throwing red on to blue---