socks are underwear, after all!

eating spaghetti with a cattle prod
the small byzantine child asks
mother may i keep this fish head?
it followed me home

& the mother
a neophyte carpet prostitute, says
yes but only if you
drink your opium
all gone


c 1990

published in 'HEATHENzine' Aug/Sept '90, which was not actually a Heathen zine but a poetry mag.