cash money

precious metals
have only been
assigned value

heart-shaped jewelry

cuts through metal
cans with all the
precision of
cutting into
a tomato

movies music
intellectual property
you know my name,
now gimme my
money- the hook

sample lifting
mining for ore
among the dead;
wasted hard-ons,
wasted livers,
bleeding hearts and
seething rage, blind

precious mental
images have
only been assigned
to characters

assassinated in the snow
holding onto the
nighttime, children
under sleepwalk
trance