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
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