Nits of a Louise (continued)
by Lou Crabtree

16.
Laid out in my coffin
that old mosquito
lit on my nose
You son-of-a-bee
You'll get no blood
for your blood bank.
17.
Heading for the whore bar
waving one finger instead of five
past orange traffic cones
past dead bodies

Find a penny
pick her up

Trollops
hot steppers
scarlet flakes
a fucking freak in combat boots
swimming in peanut butter
nailing Jell-O to the wall

Dead-Eye Dick, Calamity Jane
A red pencil cut
meaningless.

18.
I don't know
whether
to valign myself with angels
OR
to stay in my tree
and align myself
with higher primates.

19.
I went to the old house
on a quiet trip
There were scorpions
in the bottles.

20.
The devil's forked-tongue
flicked venom
lies and more lies

From the stud
she loaded to her tongue
gangland style in her teens
her tongue forked like the snakes!
Split through the middle
split and slit
until she had two tongues
to go with her ruby slippers
and a ring
through her septum.

21.
No short cut from top-down
or from down-up
It takes "grunt work"-
study, commitment, hard work
not always intellectual superiority.

22.
Even when it was raining
Old Pop
put a sack around his shoulders
an old hat on his head
and cut the briars.

23.
South American coca farmers
barely can put beans
on the table
Tobacco farmers load the guns
for suicide.

24.
Moral not abides
in the junkyard of our minds
guided missiles and misguided men
scientific power versus spiritual power

Sleaze mentality screams
watching the 500 races
to see cars crashing into walls
a ball player in tight britches
jerk his crotch to hit a ball
to see ice skaters fall on a triple axle.

25.
In my other life
I chose to be a white polar bear
with its power the most perfect art
Always so cold, he does not feel the cold
so no need to hibernate.
Let Geo be a brown bear,
Who loves to sleep and hibernate.

26.
This veil of death
that I look through
aided by faith
tells me
WAIT.
27.
Why Mary,
are you doing that?
Twisting your finger
around your hair?
You wouldn't know Maw.
It is sexy.
28.
The passion of love
is a flame that burns
and is never extinguished
by despair
misfortune
or infirmity.
Where the byproducts-
the deep realities
that never change
are family
food
clothing.

29.
I am a true Believer
But Santa, dearest Santa,
Was that you down at the mall?

Santa, it's me again
Sue is twelve
and she doesn't want
no tiddly-winks

Granny says
You were drunk down at the mall.

Dearest Santa
I'll always be
a true Believer.

©Copyright, Lou Crabtree