Daughter Be Not
Location
The trafficked desperation
The lined, faux leather couch
The smoke of burned unmentionables
It was pizza
And so like heyzeus from the ashes you rose
Because phoenixes are too poetic
Because time had clocked me once again
Because asleep I dreamt in color
Birds are colorblind
But you and I could feel the color red
Color of passion, hatred, love, evil,
The pizza sauce
The blood
I refused to go to the bathroom;
I refused to go to the kitchen;
I’ve always had to be the one with the last word.
So
Daughter Be Not
And
Subsequent pools mirrored this sentiment
The distress clogged with smoke
Fire
Color never to be seen
So
Goodbye forever,
Dear phoenix