Scarlet's Poetry Den "Litany of Scars - Notes to a Missing Lover"

Broken Doll Blues (Listen to the poem in RealAudio G2)

broken doll blues cracked porcelain face or were you
Raggedy Ann lost all your stuffing tripped the light
fandango electric buzzing neon blurbed "we have no
survivors" let you be a washout frizz-bomb smashing
all over pavement spun uranium rhythms brains
machine-gunned by television holes bigger than black
sucked you into a vortex of lies & crime & advertisements
exploded at the bottom valiumed into a cardboard
glamour girl played at the arcade discoed into
altered states of consciousness
name your killers all especially you never knew
doing the zombie walk cracked porcelain face
visited you in hospitals would only talk about the
weather and that jerk once on your arm not surprised
to hear about your swan dive or would have been a car
crash always collected too many speeding tickets
framed them like it made you different
radioactive zapped sorcerer of night
even fish die like a commercial might change life
squashed like oreo cookie cream AM radio waves
reverberated round your skull twitched eye muscles
in the end can't care anymore
cracked porcelain face blue eyes blues

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