trickle

The artists and the writers, and the kings and photographers

Well I imagine them with their models and queens and characters

Sipping some something I’ve never heard of

They laugh and she smiles and then she hangs in her head

She looks up and she’s biting her lip and she’s looking at him

And that fucking devil, that fucking fashionista prick

So coy, what a winner, what a goddamn man

Then there’s a musician and a spy, a director and a poet

Then there’s the rest of us, and then there’s me

Laying underneath these men and their women, looking up

All the books and masterpieces and rolls of film

And diamond rings and his tie and her skirt

They lie around me, fall around my face

Coming from their sheets as they toss around

She’s throwing her head back, her fingers clench tight on his back

I wince when she whines, her teeth may crack

Moaning juxtaposition and stanzas and negative space

Slick smiles, well I can’t blame her

Because we all claim to want one thing

When we want another.

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