The Cherry Girls

"I can tie a cherry stem with my tongue"
She says; guy next to me
"and you?"
I can tie a noose around my neck
It'd be far more interesting than this...
I'm an introspective extrovert
Feel most alone in crowded rooms
I make love to blank pages

Tell me, what do you do?

Me? I belong to the night
To the moon
Diurnal, nocturnal lioness
a master huntress

Prone to roam

In deserted fields

Too much an animal

For antiquated rituals

I seek solace in the spaces

Between my sentences

I write poetry in my sleep

Forget it until brief moments

Of magic pull it out of me

You? You’ve already bored me

Each woman in your bed means nothing

Another warm body staining sheets

And if this is a conquest

You can’t beat the queen

Because I am all instinct

Following only the hem of my skirt

As I leave

I see the beauty of God in a fallen leaf

I walk the fine edge

Of every single precipice

A fatal attraction to the danger

Just to feel alive

Go ahead sweetheart

Show him what you can do with your mouth

I’ve got some solitude to seek

And sacred communions with leaves

I hold a razor behind my teeth

For all the men who try to kiss me

I tongue tie any gentleman

Until he bleeds

Sans the cherry