zenhell

the madonna's sorrowful mysteries

1. the madonna's day trip

that morning
she rented a beauty car

the day bright
her time pure

the city of trash
sparkled
like a black diamond

on the highway
of roses
she felt like a
thousand blue flames

until a herd of tarantulas
blocked her way

when she tried the brakes
a serpent coiled around her feet

spinning in death flowers
wilting on the dashboard

mired in spider jelly
she barely escaped
the burning car

they put the spiders in the spider ambulance
and rushed them to the anvil of eternity

she fussed over her
beauty wounds

asked for dragon milk
to kill her sick star

holding back soul tears
leaked on concrete flowers
she burned the love bridge
to new jersey
and cried moon blood

2. in the aftermath of the madonna's unfortunate accident

after the party
she peeks
from a soul mask

her fire cat bristles
and hisses the black moon

the spider ghosts wait
beyond the light door

they steal forth
to wound
her soul closet
and plague
the beauty night

anxiety injures
her black hunger

the ghosts steal
her night children

she burns her love idols
in the fireplace
and spills her jewels
on the carpet

to appease
the blood hand

she buries
a plague cross
in her garden

her shovel strikes
a dog skull
that ruins the playhouse
of sin

justice waves the blind beauty
that hides the plague book

3. the fate of the rented beauty car

forgiveness came hard
for the carbuncled
beauty car
impatient as hell

where fire wheels
burn through
the ghost rain

the car navigated
dark stars
to the graveyard
of time junk

where a hell hound
pissed fire
against
her white-wall tires

devil imps
stole
her fire wheels

pawned them for dope
on death street

they left her skeleton
alone
in the sin weeds
infested
with ghost spiders