SUMMER WRIGHT

muchfuckdyke (Horticulture)

Daisy dukes  through

town after soaking her skirt on a dare.

she’s  off, but often offering: doesn’t scare

me. friendly enough and grew

bankable breasts; let me cop my first feel. promised head.

Amber only bumps for bread.

lackadaisical me; i dream daisies.

i sold my whole heart to every

flower she ever had the pleasure to pluck.

“i love you too,” she bloomed, “but i’ll never have quite as  much

to sell.” darling, you’re already more than enough.

us’ll survive each scurrying scurrilous faggot-fucking  fuck.

our discourse parodies prophecy:

“fuck the police.” “i do. i’m banking on it.” but Chicago

cops lock up more gay whores than rapists. So.

if we piss you off, you can piss on me—

that is if pissing gets you off. tell me what you like:

fifty extra or a glock. show

me your carnage incarnate. Amber’s bi. Daisy’s just a  dyke.

who will ever really know.

(Perfect flowers have both stamens and pistils.)

Countess (hospital ward)

Daisy’s daffy: girl has all the time in the world

and spent near none on a sulk.

[like lilacs or lilies she used to lilt. then Everymister bloom

his bloody balloon.

crept cross her canals. pried and pinned and pumped and forced with fists

her fluttering points

until barely could either breathe and up she blew. hurled.]

come evening, Amber’s out and so jejune

do talk

the two:

“Yes, i will die dim, insides fallow fields full and empty

of Everyman—without return from Sir’s insurmountable mount.”

“for the best, i guess: returns a little death; not only death

is death is bigger than big.” “I jests at that (what pests me):

i wake each day aquake in mourning dew; always of sorrows

do i lose my count.

and yet: today awake am i.” “tomorrow?”

“we can bet again on breath.”

i need know one brute truth, oh ambling Ambers all:

are you ashes? or in scarlet swatch plumes

will plummet upwards you upon your words?

(says Everyman:) “come now—upwards.” “through such thick brume?”

now PEP’s in your step. you’ll not be sick more; ought it may teach

you how to grieve each

hospital, however indomitably inhospitable to whores.

and i’m here;

i’m here.

though for all you’ve fallen floral, come here, Daisy dear: i’ll be your ward.