flowers and cigarettes 12.4.07

flowery spray and tobacco smoke
swirl around my fingers
staining them yellow
and perfuming them to choke

raw fish and raw flesh
rug burn stains her knees
red as the salmon in the throat

nicotine and endorphins
the violet fluid flows
through skin and bone
to the torrid torched infection

icy snow and shut pole
numb feet tinged with pain
while the camera flash
forces the snow blue

toilet bowl cleaner and tequila
mr. clean's stomach acid eating the linoleum
fetch him the dandelions from the freezer
echoes of a green day lost
now trapped in this box of metal and freon
shall rouse him from his grotesque reverie

flowers and cigarettes
in the night's black
lighted white by ice
now fades down to grey