she wears plaid skirts knee socks on saturday nights drinks too much & lets bald men spank her for money tell her she’s been a bad girl
but there’s enough freaks to pay the bills put her kid through college so she quit writing poetry a long time ago
II.
on sundays she wears fishnets to church sits on the front pew gives the preacher a little hell fire of his own crosses & slowly recrosses her legs enough that he yells during the children's service
hallelujah give me an amen
--stays behind the pulpit until way after the sermon was over