She's spitting out some
screwed-up villanelle
to every Johnny looking for
their luck,
she’s pissing up the walls of
dollar hell.
And ninety cents an hour don’t
cast no spell,
that hot steel peels her cranium unstuck
through spitting out some
screwed-up villanelle.
All dried-up bitches with no
soul to sell,
them lame floor ladies, they
don’t give a fuck–
done pissing up the walls of
dollar hell.
Forget it sister, there’s no
kiss and tell,
no Catholic girls, no fine young
cock to suck,
just spitting out some
screwed-up villanelle.
Those stallions won’t drink from
this poisoned well,
and Sally’s mustang’s too damn
tired to buck–
gone pissing up the walls of
dollar hell.
Still waiting for that final
graveyard bell,
a New York ticket flowering in
the muck.
She's spitting out some
screwed-up villanelle,
she’s pissing up the walls of
dollar hell.
Russell J Turner – October 2012