will
you
wash me
wash
me
yes you will
wash me
in you
will you
weep
wash me in me
me into me
stars
not infinite
rusted
hospital window
covered
in
clay
come with
me baby
wash
wash
all this
wash me
witness
window's
reflections
of reptiles
tying
themselves
around our
bloodied
bodies
baby
i cried
baby i cried
all
night
languor
for last
languorous
for last train
train
to come
ô hear
whistle wail
here
in
hospital
they
hose
you
down
until
you can go
no further
no
no
further
burn
off this
blood
darling
dying
so long ago
some street sydney
crime
squad hurling me
in harbor
if i remember
exactly 1977
month
i'm barely living
now
no
now no
wash me
wash me
with your white
scarf
wash me white
black as lumumba
in blood's
rainbow
settling
over skin
night
enters
night
so
early
wash me
darling
i'm dead
wash
me
clean as cabral
after they
shot sage
behind bushes
bleeding
prefer that
to drowning
wooloomooloo 1977
exactly october date
great revolution
turning
over
& over again
in water
i couldn't swim
sweetheart
detective sergeant
standing
there with them
uniformed
keepers
of peace
i have
never known
in this life
or one
coming
they leaving
me battered
doll on shore's
edge then
i knew
i was so
beautiful
condemned to
carnage
this
or that
country
until
i got married
in 18th arrondiement
for few hours
with rapunzel's beautiful
& understanding
sister
belarusiian
pole parisian
from her feet
to her chausson
pomme (h)anna(h)
caught
cord
between
fingers typing
in nine languages
& silence
her master
in everyone
& in refinery
explaining to normaliens
what
water
is
what
water
is
wash me
wash
watched
me
wash
wash me
wash
me
until
i
am
black
as i
was born
darling
darling
i died
long ago
with ancients
working our numbers
in prague perhaps
with rebbe loew
who
who
who
who
taught me
so tactfully
numbers
& numbers
no
how
he helped
who
who
who
who
i
was
doll
on shore
of harbor
battered by blue
monsters
wet
their
pants
panting
panting
panting
i was dying
so
so
long ago
long time
time
tell nothing
except
it burns
so brightly
in syringe
i freeze
i freeze
wash me
wash me
into man
that i am
that i am
over
& over
again
so
again
so
again
so
beautiful
who can tell
wash me
all way
through
other side
to whomever
i was
wash me
wash me
in my blood
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