Scum Becoming

by Megan Auffart

Hemorrhage down sad alleys of goggling bums and penny sex
Bleed sullied words from your throat, mouth moving:
Fuck
Shit
Bitch
Cunt
Ass
Over and over, churning those words irrepressible
Till they sound like some song in your brain rhyming
Chanted by girl children skipping over jagged glass carpets
With the groveling bums and black-hole whores
You take your place in that sad Parthenon
A heaven of hacking coughs until sunrise