THE NAIL BITER

She looks hungry in the rising dawn

Putting my fingers in her mouth

They come out sheared off to the bone

It is taking more and more of me to excite her

Woman: a definitive nail biter

I asked her to put the radio on

She throws it right in

She’s always complaining

She’s too fat or too thin

She’s O.K. at scrabble but

She’s bad when she loses

And she’s shit when she wins

FIGHT (on a triple word scorer)

And she’s telling me I bore her

Oh god, pass the cigarette n

Oh man, pass that blue lighter

Woman, shudder ugh a nail biter

She wants me to be a sculpter, rodin

She wants me to be a painter, GAUGIN

She hates writers

The nail biter