Puzzle of a Downfall Child Living in a state of grace must Be a matter of perception's Sharpening the mask the Way a trimming hook winds Mr. Wong
Winds Uwe who was once A sculptress in another life These are the Damned And now your red beehive Convertible is hot for men Like the ethereal doctor And where your screaming Gorgonic gasp-fish blew The soothing straightjacket Of the beach playing castanets I only remember your face Passing into oblivion As if a garden of screeching Had finally laid down A heavy yellow liquid mule written while remembering Jerry Schatzberg's 1970 film, Puzzle of a Downfall Child