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BEAUTY BEAST ..

By Carolyn Stockbridge

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Beauty Beast

  Twenty-Seventy year old pale skin.
Yellow straw hat-violet blue flowers under
violent brow piercing crystal eyes.
Bends to tie shoelaces-stays down for time
it takes to go to local post office and re-fuel on coffee.
Man snorts through left nostril into empty chamber doorway
echoing like nature in mountains.
Spit pony.
Claiming his territory of centuries ago.
Black hair pride shorn off for city-crew-cut-accessory.
Indian blood cut European Mexican tongues.
Dealings on the streets.
Make eye contact.
Call me Jane come again.
Jack is Bill and Jane is she.
No eye contact wolf whistles insist in needing needles.
Wolf on kiddie bike stunt on curbs pagers on belt needles in
vein knife in pocket gun in mouth.
White stained boy girl down.

  Junked up beauty beasts pretty-ugly company.
Air guitar hallucinogenic hooks
plays to thousands of fans come to see the performance.
Bus loads of tourists driven past front doorway
slowly snapping pictures of derelict bodies.
Broken down buildings ghetto junkie reservation.
Get off stop bus snap crack pictures of nudies at wreck beach.
Tourist high heel attraction eat ice-cream-in-pants.

Vancouver on the map:
Expo86 -winter olympics 2010- HIV-junk- child porn-red-light district all over town.
Internet supersedes geographical boundaries.
BC bud-crack-down-cocaine and the latest rage crystal-meth
mixed with unknown substances guaranteed to blow your mind.
Bee Keeper on the loose moose beware.

Young tourist from Germany on perfect post-modern journey
under window in Shanghai   Alley licking foil.
Better than sex. New pack on back.
Better get back Jack before beauty beast takes you down.

Push through gang on corner.
Blue key in hand get in quick lock door turn out light.
Listen for footsteps following none tonight.
Pepper spray alley late night flight sight.

 Eat ice-cream pinched from 711.
Cherry Garcia the only thing stays down except local
fire-red-head silver beaded mini skirt track mark Sue.
Stockings ripped through by needles like fish nets on the docks.

Energy buzz buzz buzz.
Waiting for something to crack.
No sirens for a while must be the calm before the storm.

Welfare Wednesday flies by.
Mid month struggles begin.
People sleeping on the sidewalk no rooms left in the inn for free.
Managers bed the tenants down strapped and out drunk high
hungry shaved heads in lieu of rent no drug sales for pretty hookers raw and tired.
How many people fit in one single room bed.
Cameras making sure no one poor cheats the door.

Pubs shut down for renovations.
Will open as fancy bar-cocktails and the likes imported
beer guacamole and salsa for 2010 tourists.
Get off bus escorted conveyor belt safety spend more cash.
Get off quick high alley dash.

Hockey beer chips cash for smash.

Big screen TV in Pigeon Park .
Watch the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Watch us watching us pass by.
Video cameras hidden in trees
pigeons’ eyes-flies-wings-hot dog stand
ex-con tattoo on the make.
Loaf of bread for sale
by local fire-red-head silver beaded mini skirt track mark Sue
calls me Jane come again.
Special ingredients fed to the pigeons.
Lick their shit off pavement spread on bread.
Waiting for the high to hit ingested only enough to turn
its molecular structure to human consumption.
Some quality laced with rat poison.

Pigeons die play eye spy.
Wait.

More bread arrives this batch is good from a
Russian tanker by the way of sailor Sam from Portsmouth .