to be standing
with cigar fingers
counting cuts
on my ankles

punching pores
into
the hotel wallpaper

puncturing
paper
plants

with
a complimentary needle

is you

"hugh?"
no, you
with a y

to be lying
on the city street
fingering
the back breaking grooves

is a new infancy

first words read:
LISA

or maybe it was "L is a ----"
and the derision worn away

poor L

p
o
o
r L

for you, I will tattoo this hotel wall