{ Gina Myers & Dustin Williamson: As Per Your Request. }

[delga]

As Per Your Request
Gina Myers & Dustin Williamson

I have taken
the plums
& the crystal
meth
from our five
day deal
you were
probably
savoring
for the latest
discoteque
or at least
the latest
grotesquerie;
please forgive
me they were
in sluice, see
& who could
blame me,
you told me
to look away
& away I
looked your
way.
the moment
had passed
to clear
my palate
& the rest
is old hat
over a weird
beard,
chiffon shirt,
& lucid slacks.

--

Whilst there are clear echoes of the Williams poem here, what I like about this is the half-farcical, half-chimerical nature of the verse. I especially love the enjambment in the early lines: & the crystal / meth. It could be anything before that break - ware, for example. And then meth. Wonderful.