the poet is a gutter dweller
a pauper in the city of art
base born bastard
child of a drunken muse
laid low by human suffering and joy

she casts off her grief and lusty longings
as rotted rags upon her offspring
that they may carry her burdens
crazed prophets to a deaf world
running rampant and away
only to return to the everlasting teat
crying MORE!