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steve caratzas

                               


THE RINGING INDICTMENT SERIES:
A MAD KILLER'S BANKRUPT IDEOLOGY


Your battery acid tongue
Dissolves hammer, anvil and stirrup
In a wash of cancerous suds:
"No wonder I'm all frigged up."

One steel-wool touch
Would have the Fake Eyebrow Lady at
Bloomingdale's makeup counter
Positively retching.

I fly with hot leather wings
To find you've already
Wriggled free of your perfect skin:
Bitch.

Sweetheart! Satan loves you
More than you know.
Give him but a lavender-scented chance -
You will believe.

Concrete jailhouse walls speak their unjust longings,
Garroted echoes of hard-timers.
"Tough shit," as they say in Toledo.
¡Ay, son las cosas de la vida!

"I am Jesus Christ!"
Quoth the mental case
Who took a mallet to the Pieta.
Asshole.

Dime-store crucifix
Around a green-ringed neck
Flakes
Cheap gold leaf.



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