They Say

you may be

wounded, the wound, well

rounded, masterful, monkey-like

on a mattress, eternal

as a mother, smothering, marching,

choked, defaulting on credit, bolting

with the credit, glossy,

disruptively sad, copulating,

sad & copulating, hairless, a fabulist,

poor, worth

a lipstick, random, promised

but sacrificing, cranked, crumbling,

annexing glass, scandalous in silks

& drenched in jenever, sentimental,

wretched, wretched & yet with good

intentions (like Kafka wrote),

a murderer or tender

as a tick, a patron

of the arts, the art, anathema,

anamorphic, found,

frank, freshly cut

up with envy, walking bedlam

bleeding between your legs,

a tigress, goddess, vis-à-vis

God, wondering if God is They,

but you better look

good doing it, They say

to the girls.