Goddess

I wanna get drunk

Like in the old days

Drink whatever my hands touch

Let the giddiness set in

Courage and its troops invade my veins

And hold my blood’s purity captive

Warm flushed skin alerts

That transformation's happening

and I become beautiful

and I become sexy

and my ass wiggles and waves hello

As my voice becomes silky smooth

And I become a goddess

Meet a guy and take him home

Or go back to his place

Have an animalistic fuck

Or make love to a stranger

Be whatever I want

Because no one sees

Behind my mask

To know that I am a mere human

And then morning comes

And my stomach feels the devastation

Caused by poisonous intruders

As it, in a revealing reprimand for my fallibility,

Impeaches me and strips me of my divine title

I wonder how often Ma, Isis, or Aphrodite

Dropped their heads into a

Porcelain bowl to make their own

Offerings to the gods

As I look at the floating bile-brown remnants

From last night’s escapade

Memory begins to infiltrate my brain

Piece by muddy piece

With pounding anxiety

For those places still empty.