Hot pan handle, third degree burns and blisters.

Masochistic urge to reach for it again, undeterred. 

Gun nut, gung-ho coward, wortship of control, dead eyes, 

Sadistic need to hurt or be hurt by mommy, 

Run from, but not left in the past. 

Bigot, misogynist, fake faith worn on the sleeve,

Money, cars, and sleaze, 

A distorted knock-off Jake Busey, human trash, 

“Psycho,” run from, but not left in the past. 

Old dreams repackaged as new dreams, 

New, old faces, same disease. 

Gun nut, gung-ho coward, control freak, faith worn on the sleeve,

Money, cars, dead eyes, and Southwest sleaze. 

Playboy, wife-loser, faith worn on the sleeve. 

Stranger in the northeast, money, banks, and sleaze,

False face to the world, red flags of disease. 

Managerial sociopathy, neurotic nepo-baby, northwestern close friend,

Clothing throw backs, permanent immaturity, 

Money, cars, and conspicuous consumption. 

All that was let in, entertained by force. 

Hot pans, blisters ready, an urge to reach for them again, 

Lessons spurned, never learned, none worth lovers or even friends, 

Not one cared enough to ever come, but play the teasing game, baiting, 

Hot pan grabber just as dumb and waiting, 

For nothing worth the burn.