Monday, August 31, 2026

Crickets

crickets rub their legs
together in the night 

I am in them

and they are in me

 

merry-go-round 

and spin the bottle

of holy holy chirp wine

 

sing the whore dance

the rubbing of legs

against spindles of bone

and raw pink Venus flesh

 

vampires born into the night

in New York stone canyons

but who can blame them

thrust into the world

from a cricket’s birth canal

 

their day job to sleep

and by night to hustle

with leather skirt and boots

so who can blame them

who can blame them

 

there but for the grace

go you and I


~William Hammett



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