Steal a lipstick virginity
& tighten the corset of reindeer ribs
around your egg-sac lungs

Fasten the guillotine garter
upon your graceful, muscley thigh
& watch his face ignite at the sight of something more to remove

Fill a claw-foot with iodine tears & lemon milk
& feel your scapula contract & expel
as his chest inflates behind you

Drink a tumbler of burning bourbon &
your tunnel-throat is taken over by infernos
sliding to your acidic center

We will use the last day
of the workweek
to learn the King’s English

On separate pages of the same spiral-bound,
we will scribe the letter “O” in small, perfect,
simultaneous rows