(c) Rob Goldstein 2015-2017 All Rights Reserved
Her lover
has
left her:
he’s on
the road
now
revving
some
big rig
doing
God knows
what In
the rest
stops.
She saves for
the future.
A fresh
deposit
saunters in
as she
freshens
her
Lipstick.
Eyes steady
she
approaches
and
whispers.
20 bucks
rides
on this,
10 will buy
some quiet
spot;
some place
to spark
his
imagination.
“Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman)” from Led Zeppelin II
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He called like he usually did, his voice sexy and deep, not hysterical, which
he can sometimes get when something’s on his mind, something I have to
ferret out , burying my muzzle in the shit of his psyche.
He said we couldn’t have dinner, that he was broke and, ‘some people have
to work,’ implying something about my life.
He said that I was fine, but, ‘a little too much’ and wondered if I wouldn’t
be happier with someone more complex, more my ‘speed.’
And I said no! No! Simplicity is my goal, what can I be? What would you
like me to be?
“Nothing.” he said, and hung up.
He Said, He Said
Excerpt from a poetry reading with Harold Norse, 1986.
(c) Rob Goldstein 1986-2017 All Rights Reserved
Marcy awakens the next morning and Felique is gone.
On the mirror, scrawled in lipstick: Farewell my raisin d’être!
Behind the message Marcy’s reflection bubbles and is slowly
replaced by the face of a hag.
“Who are you!” demands the Hag.
“I am Marcy Bloomingdale of Queens, New York.”
“No! You are Persephone, ex-wife of Hades!”
Marcy rolls her eyes, “What he want?”
“The male gods are titillated but not amused by your lesbian ways. They take revenge on you by unleashing your love’s late Mother for she cannot bear to see her daughter happy. Felique is her hostage in the Underworld.”
“By the gods,” Persephone, alias Marcy Bloomingdale of Queens, New York exclaims, “How can I retrieve her!”
The image of the Hag begins to vanish, “You must seek the mercy of Hades…You must return to the Underworld…”
To be continued…
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