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20 crazy bitches
by Christine Rosakranse
they’re twenty crazy bitches in my head
and they all want to kick your ass
and they would
if I let them
if it thought perhaps
seriously
hey, my chunky heeled shoes
the thick chain around my neck
a fountain pen in my pocket
all make good weapons

I’ll warn you
they go for the eyes
cause that’s what drives them mad
they’d go with their claws and talons
the razor blades hidden in dreadlocks
which I don’t have
perhaps twisting your own wrist back
into your face just to stop

the staring, the crying, oh god
the seeking affection, the desire
the always wanting more
the never having enough

enough, enough lascivious eyes

you can’t buy a jukebox heart
filled with paper roses
that will beat out poetry
just for you

you can’t take enough drugs

when the flame hits the ice
and the clouds fill your lungs
god sits on his pile of skulls
fingering the empty sockets
behind the green curtain lids

that’s only the him-in-your-mind
you will never see him in the garden
until flowers sprout from your brain

I don’t want long nails
I don’t put razor blades in my hair
I don’t fight tigers and lions
I’d kill myself before doing you harm

but the girls don’t sleep
and when I leave
taken by poppy thighs
into realms of night

they sharpen their words
fighting about how to kill you
dreaming of kindergarten cruelty

in their demented rage,
wishing death by Seussian torture device
perhaps a huge magnifying glass
set to torch a tall tower of teetering chairs
with you strapped to the top
gagged mouth
you fall, the blackened bottommost chair cracking
before intense heat reaches
the very top
white socks remain brilliantly white
until drenched by treacherous red
eyes bursting on impact

they think of concord grapes
and get hungry
my stomach growls at midnight

and there is nothing I can do
but warn
if you want nothing
you have everything you want
and they’ll die in one big pile
a heap of rotting death
if not
you beg for the bitches
to come
giggling
to slice out your eyes
from your head
Aug. 2006
66