She got off the bus in 1932
She got off the bus in 1932
to the smell of yellow
sunshine and the taste of
Hollywood Art Deco dreams
She never wants to shine
in the black night sky
She only wants to be a
star sparkling on the stage
or where everyone will pause
and recognize her name
before stepping on her glitter star
right in front the Pantages Theater
on Hollywood and Vine
Even when she was dying
there was no midwestern hands
to hold her tight and say good night
She still believed she was going to make it
even when they closed the casket lid
on her just another pretty face
She told them it wasn’t really over
even though like always
no one was listening
She shooed all the angels away
They cry night after night
when they hear her sing
on the stage to an audience
who will never see or hear
all her passion and pain
It is only when the auditorium
Is empty that workers swear
they hear a female voice singing
No one knows her name
Can you hear her?
Can you hear her please?
She still refuses to shine
in the black night sky
She only wants to be a star sparkling
on the stage or where everyone
will pause and recognize her name
before stepping on her glitter star
right in front the Pantages Theater
on Hollywood and Vine
spirit love haiku
The spirit beguiled
Kissing me all through the
night
Turning dawn silver
love potion #98
I feel all alone in bed
lying next to you
I conjure spirits seducing
them into sleeping séances
Beguiling more to help me
blend my witch’s brew
“Eye of newt and wool of
bat” swirling elixir around
my tongue
Bewitching winds dripping
with images of me for you
to dream
I create an altar of apparitions
along with my 98th attempt
at a love potion
Why do you still ignore me?
I become a changeling in the
ancient emerald forest
Enchanting fairies
Stealing their pixie dust
Sprinkling it into the sea
of all our possibilities
I am the Macbeth’s witches
A coven of one
“Fire burns and caldron bubble”
until the prophecy
becomes perfectly clear
Fuck you!
I am voodooing you out of
my head and out of my bed
I am creating this alchemy
with my beating heart which
will not bleed for you to feast
Conjuring this potion to
free me of all our mesmerizing
made up memories
This love poem is now just for me
Happy Halloween!
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