MAGIC
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC?
Chocolate mess on ruby ring hand sticky
Scent of rotting sweetness Girl of 13 looks
like 36 Was she fresh faced at 7? Now top
knot displays 6 inch roots Face pinched with
transcendence gone wrong
She looks more like a beat up doll than a human
girl Wait! those are stitches under her mouth
not stainsofdisdain And look one foot is raggedy
full of holes Even my beatnik doll circa ’63 had
more joie de vivre
But she has her dog flat & woollen at her feet
Is he made of socks? His tail moves ever so slightly
in would-be merriment It’s as though he knows
that glaring is the new compassion
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SPRING 2014
songanddancegirl 