of zebras and men
i think he’s interested in her
a blacksuited shoesalesman
looks undertaker but dapper
we’ll take him!
but will she? used to booths at
el morocco 1943 sat with marilyn
regularly home to bombed-out
bomb-shells
we reproduced the zebra print on a
wingback chair with a taxidermied
head above not hers ! but a zebra’s
last night he knocked 3 am livecam
recorded the kiss but something amiss
not the gentleman caller of 46 (charlie
the bastard out of texarkana)
no! our shoesalesman boldly planted one
alas she hit him with the metal sitz-bath
sitting in the vestibule
as mr. zebra winked our father’s laugh
a jazzyriff on the injustice of an early
death echoed from a frozen cemetery
up on bathurst street
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mother holding court el morocco 1946
(far right)
Winter 2019
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