My Last Act

Fill the basin with my hands

Your strong shoulders in my head

Soft soap splashing on the rim

I keep wishing I was him

Cobweb fluttering 12 ft up

Above the basin where I ?



Soap and fingernails

Dirty imagined intimate details

I go to the garage where on the wall

1010 daddy long legs crawl

A crazy notion tracks through my mind

An electrical shudder shoots up and down my spine

I run to the kitchen grab a pot and lid

And I rush to the garage before I knew what I did



I was raking the gentle? spiders into that pot

Then I was sitting at the kitchen table feeling so cold and so hot

In a moment I move to get a cereal bowl

Then I'm back at the table and before I know

What exactly I had done, I pulled the legs off every one

(the little black buttons) in front of me it looked

like a bowl of black eyed peas



? in the top, poured it into the Cuisinart

I reached in the cupboard and I grabbed a lid

Of Tequila and I pour that in, push the button and it starts to chop

(my heart can hardly contain my thumping heart)

My last act on this earth will be to chug a lug a mixture

and hope for the worst