there is a kiss ...
there is a kiss that I have pinned to the wall
right beside the picture of you
in your tank top and jeans
I had to cut off your head
because you were always watching me
do the tango with Cecilia and Marjorie and Renée and Ursula
and all the other dancers that have come into my life
with red or blonde braids
with creamy white skin
bashing the cymbals of my heart together
so that I would lie down like a tamed rhinoceros
lie down and roll
roll in the mud of their desires
I did not mean to offend you
you shouldn’t have been watching
yesterday you wrote to say you weren’t coming home
that Africa was really beautiful
and Badooo was a brilliant artist
and a better lover than me
and to think, all I was worried about
was the malaria
right beside the picture of you
in your tank top and jeans
I had to cut off your head
because you were always watching me
do the tango with Cecilia and Marjorie and Renée and Ursula
and all the other dancers that have come into my life
with red or blonde braids
with creamy white skin
bashing the cymbals of my heart together
so that I would lie down like a tamed rhinoceros
lie down and roll
roll in the mud of their desires
I did not mean to offend you
you shouldn’t have been watching
yesterday you wrote to say you weren’t coming home
that Africa was really beautiful
and Badooo was a brilliant artist
and a better lover than me
and to think, all I was worried about
was the malaria
