she was  a    .   stripper  from             |
           birth   & she is       evil,   remember 
         that  stupid,  sweaty,  sacred,  simple   gypsy  
                                      talking  ___
how    she      sat  all   |    ****;   __
            playing a           roll   she   ___   
               .                         lived   to  ___
wear        ____
        /     the         modern         plastic clothing    /    thin  
music   rich   in the      
   wind   blowing              free  the            nubile          
                                 virgins in their      thong        
******* & rubber flip-flops         ;        she's         
      gonna change clothes    : 
      turning   holding  her      |     stockings  
     caught  on the                  ground,   my ***** 
                         is a genius  
               & I   smoke               girls from the bottom  
telling   my        lover she's       alive     
       & her       toes   beat the    .    computer   at    
       written   witchery;
                 hairy   warm   sand  .           asked   the    
                 Jewish   watchmaker              __
what           time would        mankind's   _      
   waves   become      straight   &            _
    stand   still in the park;                        _
            put a         bra   on the kid  & cover her  
            ******  w/  society's   fingers   of    .      
          stranger   feelings; her           teeth       chattering in the      subterranean        winds      .     .          _­
invisible   as           alchemy                           ___
in       the           sunlight  \  speaking  of       __
               quantum  mechanics      &     .         __
                    calling  it      revolution   is very        Christian;
the          walls are          older than the   |     spirit-news   of    
          the new  wild                        painting   at
       midnight;  breathing                          Southern Comfort
              &     making        
              magical    sound s to call the     .      
  goddesses   forth         who       fell   down n the        
  hills;   my      mistress                 going up in    -    torrid     flames  
           mankind's computerized    .    guns   understand     .    the alien          machines                                          ­ __
        meeting     |        .           hidden   behind a  __ 
         wall of    vintage                               ****; __
        imagine                the  twisting         ­         rains              & winds                            __
                     ­    that                                still  .          
                              persist   in                old             .       *****

u called that poem 'burning virgins in oil,'
I reply needlessly, saying: 'yeh' -
alter-ego sa-is then: 'don't u mean - boiling in
oil - the heinous medieval torture reserved
for heretics & suspected witches -
I laughed to myself: 'those guys were amateurs;
I'd set the oil on fire, hence: -'
'burning virgins in oil;' - 'quite', I concluded.

there's so much I could do if I drank myself blind;
I'd meet new people
& fall down new stairs;
I'd pass out in places I've never been;
I'd wake up in stranger places; maybe
           under a bridge or in a strange
                      woman's bed in Brooklyn; maybe in      
                                                     her mother's bed;
if I drank                                so much I became incoherent
I could claim                               to be profound & haughty (everybody loves drunken poets)        :                   .                    .                         .
             like, u wouldn't    understand;
drunk & stupid is a good look I think;
I said to my buddies, let's go pick up ugly girls;
they were incredulous, but I told them
the pretty girls are always out w/ ugly girls; & if u hit on the ugly one the pretty one
will get jealous & try to cut in on her friend's action - tad-a!