the poet is beating his mistress
w/ the cat-o-nine-tails she taught
him to use on her plump round
*** quivering in tenement light beneath
subway's rattle; she taught him how
wake her up w/ his **** inside her &
to use a bullwhip on her broad back;
shoving shivering ice cubes up her ****
she shakes in ******* grace eating
white rice; Chinese Christian reading
glasses & Jungian windowsill
vacations AM radio & the BBC