The Burn

the lavish burn

eats away at me

her lipstick ring

veiling smoke

inhale me

I am held in her lungs exhaled

her red like rubies red lips

glow like hellfire

move together sinuously

the piano is untuned broken keys

she sings the deadly sins with me

the player has left for the night

the music is his broken slave

still playing

strike of match

hiss of flame

she is a coiled snake

a flicking tongue

the music is in chains

the painful

melodies

play

out

he

is

van-

quished

put

out

cigarette

jppestana january 3, 2017