(Working Woman)
and she wants a body
she screams at the mirror
that's lit up in pink
but it doesn't answer her back.
and counts out her money
that she twisted from hands
of people who liked her
with a barely-there bottom
and a nose not her own; a float
in a plastic parade all up in her face.
and pounding her hips
she asks me what do i do
to look like this?
and i get the sinking suspicion
that this scene is a ritual situation
with tantrums and rantings
for an audience of glass
that never repeats her fears of a flattened ass.
bouncing her stick-legs
as poisonous fun flows
vein by vein all blue in tune
with each dropped beat, it's nothing new.
and lit up in pink
her shaky hands bounce back
from the silent mirror that doesn't hit back.
and she's tugging and twisting
her long platinum strands, and she's
tugging the heartstrings of the loyal fans
jeering and jerking out in the stands.
she stands up and stomps out a smoke
with a shaky grin, gaining momentum
checks in with the pinkish reflection
flicking a scar from an ancient c-section
and poison throbs through each pore
as poorly paid men wait outside
panting for more.
and with patched-up thigh-highs
disguising stick-legs that shake from the shots
a shimmering necklace foreshadows her goods.
forgetting the pink of the friend in the mirror
she steps up
and then out
and then
down
to the crowd.
shaking and bouncing
blinding red strobes
get hot as she sweats
the wave swelling
and then swallowed
all on the inside
but still bringing drops
to the top
of the surface
she hides.
the bulbs burn music into her flesh
bringing the red silhouette to a crash
on her knees
in tune on time in perfect sync
those sticks are numb from the heat of the lights
and in the heat of the night
the dollars come flying from every dark corner
for bruises on knees that heal by tomorrow night.
shakily rising to the tune fading out
she sweats and she pants and
avoids looking
down
as vertigo spins the poison around.
but she catches a glimpse of a glass being raised
as celebrations at tables remain
unfazed
she finally feels
the knocked-up knee as
reality
hits that bleached-out head...
she stumbles off stage,
and out
of
the
Red.
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