Song of the Sad Assassin - WHY?

We lifted the body

from the water like a gown

You took off your bra

to wrap the wound,

though the man was dead

and there was no need.

Then your face turned red

when you said to me:

«I'll suck the marrow out and rape your hollow bones, Yoni.»

Alone, putting three coins into a washing machine,

next to a caulked, cracked wall

in the basement on Fairmount Street,

I feel like a loop of the last eight frames of film before a

slow motion Lee Harvey Oswald

gets shot in the gut and killed

«Billy the kid did what he did and he died.»

-Marilyn Hacker