Pharmaceutical Eyes

Resisting his long-lashed beacons
shining through the windscreen 
of the white Chevy Impala 
proved as futile as keeping
the wind from the air.
The Pied Piper of tenth-grade girls
guaranteed my giving all.

I wanted the everything all the way
the American Prince held back
held back, held back, held back
liege to the siren mistress medicine, 
resistant to my tingling PLEASE.
American make me American take me
with you will you when you go.

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Resisting his long-lashed beacons
shining through the windscreen 
of the white Chevy Impala 
proved as futile as keeping 
the wind from my hair.
The Pied Piper of tenth-grade girls
guaranteed my giving all.

I wanted everything all the way
the American Prince held back
held back, held back, held back
liege to the siren mistress medicine, 
resistant to my tingling pleas.
Refusing all I have to give,
You do not do not do not do. 

***

Resisting his long-lashed beacons
shining through the windscreen 
of the white Chevy Impala 
proved as futile as keeping 
the wind from my hair.

The pied piper of tenth-grade girls
guaranteed my giving all.

I wanted the everything all the way
American Prince held back
held back, held back, held back
liege to the siren mistress medicine, 
resistant to my tingling PLEASE.
I watched our fire slip away
on the back seat of the Impala 
in the lee of the sycamore tree.

Thanks to Kary Wayson and Sylvia Plath