Hell is an open mic in Bushwick

The angel statue outside the church
wore that winter's snow like a backpack.

I was freezing,
waiting for what's-his-toes.

Counting backwards from pomegranate,
6, six...where's your whistle?

Your brain won't shut up
But you just have duct tape over its mouth.

Open your heart with a fucking hatchet
and just let it all pour out forever.

Heaven is a poem 
in a church basement in Brooklyn. 

An old woman reads a sonnet
to her dildo she calls George W. Bush. 

I am emotional,
and I escape in the snow. 

To a future in which 
I still don't know. 

I miss New York City
more than pity.