attn: radium girl
our teeth are going to fall out anyway why not
enjoy a little dazzle with all the doom? I need
pretty depravity while I decay with somebody
like a radium girl who tongues her paintbrush
to perfect its point before working on all those
clocks. after her shift she coats her eyeteeth in
the stuff even wears radium lipstick that gleams
like tumbled garnet. these days it’s always hot
outside but my radium girl & I don’t mind.
we tend to one another in delicious distraction
which is just as well because both of our jobs are
killing us maybe not even slowly so at 12 we do
poison poppers & see who looks better worn like
a ring. I hate the sunrise so my radium girl slides
my eye mask down while her little left hand winds
through my split ends in a cage that I’m glad to be in
