Starlet

Drowning.
Insane writhing.
Sinking in satin.
Lost on a Hollywood sea.
Crimson amphetamines sowed like the stars.
Limbs form a terrified tree.

Beautiful once in the maze of the lens.
Marooned on a friendless moon.
A wet ball of snakes in the hand of a god.
A god who ignores and pretends.

A blur of white sunlight
to signal a birth.
The child and the candle.
A reach at the Earth.

© Mark Sheeky. Permission is required for reproduction.