Norma

from Bitter Fruit by Jodie Oakes

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lyrics

Norma

They idolized you
With your sugar spun curls
And sideways pout.
You, who by many accounts
Lay like a vamped up corpse
Shrouded in silk,
Dead eyes and a junkie smile.
The hip sway shimmer,
Carved out to carry life,
That left a dull ache
When the blood seeped out.
Little eggs smashed in the fall,
From two lovers,
Lipstick boys
Who etched their names in braille.
Your feet ingrained in the sidewalk
As you stumbled through smoke
And boiling water.
Scrub away the stink Norma,
Your mama called
From behind the gauze.
Leave them nothing
For you are everything
And everything
Is nothing more
Than the disarmed charm
Of a woman’s smile.