Vol. 21, 2003
Rebecca of Brookhaven Lab, "Nature's Beauty," [pictured above]

"nature's beauty"

by bryan adrian

Nature created a little girl her soft and sensuous red hair whispers, and never shouts about her inner purity there are no doubts

Mother Superior gave her spasms by 14 she was on the couch brain picking season by note taking louts pulling out her mother like rotten teeth

She then punked out pasted onto her face a pout threw her fist into the air and shaved her pussy hair

This pearl from the sea couldn't make the world, however get down on its knees only angels protected her from disease

"Diary diary in my bosom why has god not heard me i'm barking, up every tree like a distempered dog," she wailed

One hundred lunar cycles lapsed the only change? her ovaries are retreating folding into themselves preparing for autumn's frost

Her yearning for a soulmate that complements the writer buried in her soul has not yet been excavated by a tender touch nor a published stanza of her very own

nothing to date has been tender enough to make her drop the large wooden paddle from her mother's kitchen that she uses to spank-slap-stab and punish herself [seems like forever]

A soulmate was delivered but she scrawled with magic marker subway graffiti "RETURN TO SENDER" cause this bitch ain't having nothing to do with love beyond lip service

She bleached her hair and her pussy with pure Klorox erasing her priceless femininity that suffuses the world of dreamland with non-corporeal spirits oceans wider than the sea, tidal basins of mediocre women ride upon her pain

instead of gettin in her way as she passes by rushing to drown in the gay discos and punk clubs leaving her real self her true identity to wear the face of a clown

underfed disregarded discarded aborted near dead

That true person in there could inspire a million poems if she only entrusted it to a someone who truly understood that she is the witch of abandonment and not mommy

A someone who feels robbed and forsaken with every wave of the hand goodbye even at parades or even to just say goodnight ... same as her.