Selfish Learning

Velvet Elvis hangs on the mango wall

The elderly couple walk in from early-bird

   and the dog races

Last week it thunder rained

This week all sunshine

 

She used dry chalk for make up

And rotated Q-tips in her waxy ears until they bled

She brushed fake her teeth clean

   until the gums became a ravishing red and sore with blood

At night she cried in her death sleep and

   choked on her salt tears

 

Her husband wakes up

   and cleans her ass full of waste and debris

   from the restless night

He has a fag in the dawn light

   looking at his love

 

She raises herself upwards

  giving birth once more

  to a hairless creature of blind faith and albino devotion

It stinks of raw fish in the smoldering hot room

The paint chips and falls

And the vinyl player dances

Scum baby, Scum baby

 

The baby delivers his blue eyes

And the theatre audience looks on

The husband wishes he had a fuck

And sweet Jane gives good head

 

After her bladder gives new

She gets up on her all fours

Wham Bam Thank you Ma’am husband hops on board

And whales the fragile chalked woman

From behind

   way up in the ass

 

And the day starts once more

Married for only two years

On the west coast of Florida

They keep making children with no eyes and

   Velcro hair

Both previous spouses

   died in horrible car accidents or natural causes

 

The doctor came today and tied up the husband

   really good

The doctor fucked his wife today

And now the husband knows candle pain

The children scatter on the household floor

   imitate their dying parents

   by playing house and doctor

   with toys from the closet and cupboard

 

The doctor leaves

   untying the husband

   leaving him to clean up the mess on his wife’s

   old sagging tits

And sending the bill in the mail

 

The aging couple repeat yesterday’s day

  and when they lay to sleep

  once again

They pray that they will be the first one to die

  so, they will not once more be in mourning

 

 

 

© 1999 David Greg Harth

99.05.21.21:08:44 @ 1515/296 New York City

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