Kerri Shying R# 10 The Dressing Room of Bad Intentions

The Dressing Room of Bad Intentions

Smells like lust and Vegemite on toast

with too much butter

so thick you’d think it’s cheese

the cave of bad intention where the quick things prance and preen

fitting wheels to hatred

dressing it in pearls

jars shined up in rows of random distribution

an impulse unresisted

virginity of children

lying by omission

all the deeds undone

and done

it’s never good news when the phone rings at 5 in the morning

the photos taken after

weeping or funerals

doesn’t matter what they think if they can’t prove it

The dressing room of bad intentions

is extra dimensional; make haste

make haste

all things buried in the earth are born in the air

that’s half the fun

take your breath

and step out on the town

Drawing by Ewen Miller.