under her wing tips
"Under Her Wing Tips," February 8, 2022 (#39)
title from She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not by Lesléa Newman (2002)
Garbage, Garbage (1995)
Trash by Dorothy Allison (1988)
Under Her Wing Tips
You'll get the message by the time I'm through
denying you something you need, and
she has problems with drinking milk
and it comes out funny. I drink bourbon and
I can't use what I can't abuse
and I have always been hungry.
I came to knock you up, I came to cut you down
and let everybody know who was butcher than
bad blood and ghosts wrapped tight around
the power in them, the strength and the heat!
Tell me the one about the friend you knew:
white on white didn't suit her. Black-eyed peas
piece by piece (send me an angel)
wanted to roll out her mouth.
I called and called, but I can't
really care anymore what it is that
our chains were meant to break.
I looked around as if I were seeing it
catch me on a better day.
It was a wonder to me that the truth
cut me down or cut me dead
so much my bones have turned
as far from God as angels can fly.
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