Thursday, November 25, 2010

Death & Co.


Death & Co.
—for Sylvia Plath

Two. Of course there’s two.
It seems perfectly fey now.
John Malcolm Brinnin the fag.
His lover nelly Bill Reid.
Visiting us at Court Green.

A pair of simpering homosexuals.
Traveling all the way from America.
To entice Ted with a teaching job.
There at the University of Connecticut.
A 3-way ticket back without me.

Dido Merwin was bad enough.
Assia and all the other girlfriends.
But these two friends of Capote.
Fawning, effeminate, smirking queers.
Two bastards masturbating a glitter.

The one fag who never looks up.
His eyes lidded like a coy crocodile.
The other with yellow gloves, a lisp.
Verdigris of condor suit & tie.
Hair greased back with Brilliantine.

They reek with faggoty death.
Weak wrists, a mince, much too fey.
Exaggerating it, their nelly trademarks.
After my handsome wolfish husband.
Shall I let them have him, hmm?

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