by: Willow Kang
Juliette, you shared rock candy with the children today,
scattering them on the playgrounds,
skipping like Hebe, deriding graduation hats
At night you return home, crashing on euphoria,
crying neon tears, your favorite things that have all gone
to the children
Carve a noh mask with rose thorns.
they come to you to pray for rogue and lead,
leaving behind trails of botulinum when you stop answering
Oh Juliette, you fatten the hopefuls for slaughter
on the rooftops of Las Vegas
yet this is a world of promises & I can only watch
from atop the moonlit chandeliers
the treachery you bestow on these starry-eyed deer