Dance Card from the Maniac's Ball

by t.o. crow

You lay me down on a bed of ice

when you took me for your bride.

You warmed me with your lies

- so nice -

as I lay by your side.

You teased me like the wind

teased Marilyn's skirt

on a grate outside the Trans-Lux.

Yet, you left me no roses

like Marilyn's Joe did

Only thorns that ran with my blood.

Blood and Ice.

We danced all night until I neared exhaustion.

Then you took me home and stole my youth,

while I slept in Egyptian cotton.

There you turned my heart to frost

and our marriage became a glacier.

With no thaw seen to be coming in Spring,

the depth of my misery deepened

Until my heart broke

which set afloat

A million icy shards in my veins.

It was Summer when the thaw started.

The glacier shattered - with a great crackling shudder -

to open a chasm of pain.

I woke once more to a world filled with sunlight

and felt life stirring again.

Fall came.

My days grow cold now,

I'm a virgin no more and

All my dreams are dead.

Yet, you'll lay me down on a bed of ice.

You'll tease me with your lies.

Then,

We'll dance again to exhaustion.

(Shhhh!

The gun's there for later.

Can you feel the cold metal?

Or, see the blood splatter?

BANG!)