Nobody Wants Honey Anymore

by xTx

Written in Response to the Death of Yvette Vickers

A tiny
this is me
scared
sways from my lips
with this

All perfume gone
sucked dry
like
how beauty goes
small
at first
a bee at a time
leaving a hive
for prettier
blooms

I am there now
a quiet canyon
letters yellowing
in the mailbox
the only sound
a fading buzz
as I dry
waiting
to be
forgotten

xTx submarine, spaceship, royal wedding, cake. Orgasm, tenacity, loathing, vacation. Significant, loser, yesterday, became, fail. Forgetting, childhood, rosebud, squirrel. Paramecium, crabcake, winter snow, languid. notimetosayit.com. Read more about Vickers at the L.A. Times.