Dominique


               she od'd years ago
turned blue and fell down the stairs
   then became a profligate
drinker
   OE 800 in a chimney sweep
hat
     black dress
photographed lounging
  on piles of black garbage bags
on the sidewalk
 or,
clutching
a doll's dismembered head
or, just sitting in a room
standing
  a latch key poet

Burn it down
she said
BURN IT DOWN


-in a movie
     pregnant girlfriend of the kid
who gets suckered into buying
  a huge stereo system.

singing at the bar
       eerie harmony
two sorrowful voices
       everyone stopped
but that was years ago
    before she left
and went back to Detroit
  to raise her baby,
oh baby