RESURRECTION

Cellophane dreams and latex nightmares

Scaly smooth and phone-pole thin

Terrible, beautiful and sickly sweet

With David Bowie's jagged-tooth grin

Ornamental fantasies

Broken on the tile floor

Love a crystal, hate a stone

Black and yellow to the core

Spandex queen and high pitched chords

Crucifix of microphone stands

A million ways to sell your soul

Hell delivered by god's hands

Ziggy, Alice, KISS me please

Foil shine your candycane lips

Disco mirror ball of faith

Shadows on your stitched up hips

Life a breath exhaled to late

Nothing left now to debate.

copyright: melissa strickbine, january 1999


POETRY

...take me home...