It's all about the image
capture the flesh before decay
and hope you get a few lips
planted firmly before you do

juxtapose each image
and I end up shooting everyone
in the same way
show their art
sell their wares
and mine end up in galleries
where people stare
not knowing that
I rode her till sunrise
on a sandy beach after
rubied lips
had turned pale
and I wore the lipstick
to transfer even fainter
onto her nether

I am good they say

and my pictures don't lie
they just hide the grit
of rotting days
in exposures I create
out of my own mental
haze