pulp noir

for alex gildzen


check out her gams
possessed with a foxy leer
gilt in a pegnoir

of yellow mesh maybe

or yellow silk
her red hair tied in a ponytail
her eye make-up        blue

if she had a soul
it might be staked over a stiff
while her lover

slouches in the doorjamb
a bit out of frame

and if the dead guy
was loverboy’s boss
or her husband

that was just in the way

she might’ve got just out of bed
or was waiting for him in the closet

but for this scene there is the kind of light
filtered from the window
outside the frame

              so we won’t know
the time of day