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Kimberly Nichols

Did you ever wanna be a cowboy?
Riding tall in the saddle
Whipping the wind out of the west
Lasso drawn
Yee hi ho hay
Right out there on the

Range of emotions
Rise through the kettle
Boiling
Screaming
On the stove.

Did you ever wanna be a vampire?
I know you did
Your last lover called
You
A dracula kisser
Silent in the dark
Slow and conniving
And slippery
Aquiver.

Did you ever want to be a masochist?
Belt on and nothing else
Studded collar under your covers;
Kneeling
Letting you pent your
Rage sexually.

Did you ever wanna be a senator?
Giving it good
To the common
Man under wire,
Life entwined with
Wednesdays?

And what about a junkie?
Head down in the gutter
Poisonous passion
Threading itself up
Into your veins
Too tired
To stand and to
Move
On their own accord.

Bless me son. I
Ask you these things
In the chimney of my
Brain without sleep,
No sweeping
No mopping the galore
Of my weakness.