Room 919

A Girl Who No Longer Exists
"My room is so small, the mice are hunchbacked." -Anonymous

Red light ensnares Betty Page,

the bird with black lace wings that

she flaps just behind the little fairies

who float upon ceramic fantasies.

There's a magazine brimming with silhouettes

and a bamboo hanging depicting a Chinese dame.

I tore pictures of hippie chicks from free catalogs,

full of camisoles more expensive than all my dresses.

One little dragon, two little dragons, three, four,

nine total maybe, ten because one sports two heads.

Are they one in the same?

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