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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
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