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July 14, 2004


skinny women



skinny women with

count-the-bones knees,

cartilaginous hands, razor wire nails

craggy hips, river bottom ribs, round athletic asses and tits that fit...

it's for them I buy

wine by the case

golden vintage or sparkling, rivers of red with tooth-coating muck

tight natural corks

arty labels

stem ware I can shatter without regret...and will

stem ware cradled in the womby palms of skinny females

who hang with me because

I am a carnivore with a fang

and like me like meat, red meat,

raw meat, bloody meat, pink meat, meat, meat, meat, blood and meat and me.