Mark Metcalfe - "Sisyphus II", Copper Plate Etching
Copyright 2010. Image appears by permission of the artist.
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Week Fifteen

The Tourist:

that's him, standing and yelling in his underwear,
biting hard, hitting her, pulling her hair,
she, mean-faced with ripped jeans and a half-clawed off bra,
long-haired pirate costume guy w/ beard & beer, trying to remove her
     top,
but w/ an intense stance, threatening with a fist and a lighter,
getting closer to lighting her hair on fire, she yells, "you fucking liar,
you said this was the last time,"
but then they clocked her jaw and it stopped working after awhile,
then she stopped smiling and mentioned with her eyes how happy she'd
     be to be hanged
and her popped-out eyeballs and cheeks dropped, she had blood running cold off her
     face,
the two guys waited till she sleeped then lept
onto her half heart-attack body-sack, soon to be bagged, but not too
     late,
she was half-dead and raped,
with the red word "Tourist" smudged across her face.

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