Slated for the Tombs

The physical man

laughs off the material girl
or pays the price.

The duck skins

at the marketplace
do not fool the material girl.

Opinions formulate

but hardly motivate
the physical man.

Funds run dry

and credit stretches
the bones of the material girl.

The physical man

pretends to understand
the things of the spirit.

The material girl

sees spirit
in the stuff of the world.

Both to do a gig

in Dickinson’s
Alabaster Chambers.


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