A Boy Well Dressed
Bird of Youth

There's a cynic in the washroom 

Dropping hints in the basin 

While the mirror plays a 4-star matinee 

Left her minder in the booth outside 

Sucking whiskey off his child bride 

As some waitress is dropping her tray

  There's a fire in her eyes tonight 

Entertaining a redress

 But his hand slaps her pie-eyed reverie 

Before snapping all the buttons on her dress

 The bareback feigns indifference 

A patron's spilling catcalls 

And she's listening through concrete walls

 For the protests of a single petty witness

  There's a girl out there

Where a woman should be 

Keeping still in filthy company 

Of a boy well-dressed but

Dressed up like a man

 In her porcelain cell, this immaterial girl

 Thinks of a soft spring night when she was sure

 'til the bare, bald light brought

Claws across her skin

  Behind closed doors the mistress 

Holds her own hand in a vice grip 

Just waiting for the next rag doll and sloppy sip 

She tells herself, “I've nothing to confess” 

Marys crack like little misses 

Night's end isn't gentle kisses

 Just mending a tattered dress

 These are not your ordinary stitches

  She smelled of sleep

As the sheets were torn 

Under this shining man in uniform 

Closed her eyes and thought,

he must be asking me to dance 

How do you tell the child that

Her lover's a fighter

 Or worse, she thinks,

As the hostess retires

 Tell a lover that she's

Gonna have to fight  

Nine birds dance in the driveway

 She counts them laying sideways

 A metal cot, it touched her face

A thousand different ways

 It was then she thought,

One golden shot,

And this I shall replace 

With visions of a marching band

 The roses will cut up my hand

 And this look resting on my face

 Will fall down over this

Broken promise land  

These fighting words are craving

New mouths to feed 

And as this pen is writing

My blue face will breathe

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