Monday, June 12, 2006

Be Delicious

Grapefruit, Juniper Berries
Coffee, Quinine

Indonesian Patchouli
and something called
Absolute Africa.

Donna Karan
New York
Johannesburg
she bubbled
a witchery
in that cauldron.

but i was the voodoo lady,

And the scent
on my fingers
stained
when he left,

forever.

though
I didn't know it
at the time.

2 comments:

Muhammad said...

There was something about those apples which got killed
With the idea of utter consumerism... "Buy Me." the advert said.
And I lost all interest in how good the chick looked.
Let alone smelled.

But i digress form the distress inherent in your poem. I can say "You will survive." But you already know that.

zee said...

im finding it difficult to FULLY understand what it all means...