Sam polished his buttons preparing to go to church
but he never arrived, meeting Baudelaire
on the hallowed steps; Baudelaire who couldn't
or wouldn't ever put his ego on the line by going inside;
instead talking Sam into paying for the hookers
if Baudelaire bought the ****** & coke;
Poe dreamt he was walking the Paris street with Loutrec
to the Moulin Rouge where he's never walked before ur
ballerina footsteps following them & Degas' following urs
to the famous nightspot where u get up & sing ur ragged
match girl songs becoming a highly paid singing-dancing
superstar; but back on the Montmartre
corner high a long way from the Moulin Rouge
u space-jump through the rings of Neptune's
eternal blue flames withholding reason w/ ur nightmares
of leaving Sheila where they left her the night before;
heterosexual & without diseases walking Dorothy
to the bus depot where she kissed her au revoir;