Revenge - Laurie Reiche

"Of whores to whom menopause now
Was barely a memory, one with gold teeth and one
With game gam, but both
With aperture ready to serve
Any late-lingerers, and leave
A new and guaranteed brand of syphilis handy--- yes."
                      (from "Amazing Grace in the Back Country," 
                                                 by Robert Penn Warren)

It is not she who leaves the disease at the back of your throat:
Needs and services, needs and services
Cultivates the not so gentle germs you gentlemen
Gallantly gawk at!

So, she is the culprit of careless contagions contracted
In your moment of innocent weakness?
O' ugly hag, whore of your heave-hardening dreams
and full of revenge?

It's time to pay the piper for her tunes, but she doesn't want cash.
Her palms beg peace and retribution:
Fess-up to the trademark of your own invention.
Blame knows its way back home!