Cold
Rp
Verlaine
Ambulance gone
loser pimp’s
handcuffed.
His 2 mobile high
voltage eyes
nail scratched face sitting
in cop car laughing.
No judgment yet
Miranda rights are
read
to an illiterate
whom bars
without booze await.
A runaway answered
his modeling ad
18 years old
I pass no judgment
but in New York a
pretty face
is a degenerates
menu
on hold.
Her blood on
coat hanger (bagged
and tagged evidence)
used to turn her
to an 80 dollar
trick
she hanged herself
in toilet instead.
On John street, no
joke
no pun. She said she
was hot
the ambulance carted
her cold.
No surprise though
even in the summer
the heat of New York
City
is goddamned cold.
Rp Verlaine lives in New York City. He has an MFA in creative writing from
City College.
He taught in New York
Public schools for many years. His first volume of poetry- Damaged by Dames
& Drinking was published in 2017 and another – Femme Fatales Movie Starlets
& Rockers in 2018. A set of three e-books titled Lies From The Autobiography vol 1-3
were published from 2018 to 2020. His
newest book, Imagined
Indecencies, was
published in
February of 2022.
