this place is overheated
there are blue marks shaped like horseshoes
appearing on my arms and
chest...

pain:
a Turkish bath
with all the towels soaked
and through the steam
appears the worst thing imaginable--
a crawling octopus with the face of my father
playing a harmonica badly.
very badly...

ha...

we sometimes play with words like we play
with women and we often
lose
more often we lose
bring on the
next...

if you keep drinking, he says,
you will be senile long before your
age...
I laugh and gag on the drink
geysers spurt on the lampshade,
he has made...