Alice White I
She wants you dead
so bad
that she's willing to pay
the pimple-marked kid
from Sullivan Street,
who always returns
his soda caps,
who complains about
finding dead rodent tails
in his soup.
Alice White II
She fell in love
with a grafitti artist
named Authuro Gold,
who left on her left calf,
his signature of crowded
Ss & Hs. After he left,
she saw his face
spray-painted on subway
walls, his lips just opened
wide enough to taste her,
to spit out the negative space.
Alice White III
Uncle Henry married a younger
woman who tried to poison him
with her version of Wild Duck Soup.
As a young man, Uncle Henry would
joke that his virginity was raw,
even exotic by modern standards.
After the wife groped him into forgiveness,
the police found her face down
in her White-Necked Raven Stew,
the feathers so uncooked.
Alice White IV
A boy planted a tiny bomb
in another boy's brain while
he slept. The boy was tired
of being bullied and being
called Your Mother's Lemon
Jello. After the bomb exploded,
the boy gave up his obsession
with tiny wires and robots
controlled by remote,
and switched to electric toy
boats painted green.
She wants you dead
so bad
that she's willing to pay
the pimple-marked kid
from Sullivan Street,
who always returns
his soda caps,
who complains about
finding dead rodent tails
in his soup.
Alice White II
She fell in love
with a grafitti artist
named Authuro Gold,
who left on her left calf,
his signature of crowded
Ss & Hs. After he left,
she saw his face
spray-painted on subway
walls, his lips just opened
wide enough to taste her,
to spit out the negative space.
Alice White III
Uncle Henry married a younger
woman who tried to poison him
with her version of Wild Duck Soup.
As a young man, Uncle Henry would
joke that his virginity was raw,
even exotic by modern standards.
After the wife groped him into forgiveness,
the police found her face down
in her White-Necked Raven Stew,
the feathers so uncooked.
Alice White IV
A boy planted a tiny bomb
in another boy's brain while
he slept. The boy was tired
of being bullied and being
called Your Mother's Lemon
Jello. After the bomb exploded,
the boy gave up his obsession
with tiny wires and robots
controlled by remote,
and switched to electric toy
boats painted green.
