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Your Doctor's Bill is Ready for my View

He's put you in a clinic
the one in Massachusetts
the one for anorexia

result of your drinking
or heroin
or was it an overdose of Vitamin B
it's all so confusing

He called at 2am
I can usually tell when he's drunk
the slurred words the Sinatra songs
used to make me so wet

He asked me for money
said it's all in the family, really
Really?

If he wasn't drunk it's worrisome
told me when his ship comes in
he's going to learn to sail and just drift


away Did he ever take you under Goose Neck Bridge
in his Boston Whaler drink tequila
wait for the tug The wake

made me vomit into the same pail
with the shitting and dying fluke
He called it a Day of Death

You helped him find Jesus
poor Jesus
is mazel tov in order

He's a vegetarian now
another one of your conversions
I still enjoy meat assured that I am
a lobster on the cosmic plate

Tuesday night he was trawling off the dock
Four Roses and a pea coat
now His Holiness throws back his catch


           Vicki Iorio