Lady Lillith

Lady Lillith wears red
at the bar of American misery
and drinks a shot of fiery turpentine, toasting the inspiring sorrows of men,
her eyes an infinite black. Lose yourself to them.

Come here. Let me buy you a beer, they offer.
She sucks on their ring fingers and spits out golden vows.
She giggles. She bites. She dances in the velvet light.
They wait in line to taste her forbidden fruit.

The loss of innocence came in the form of a black haired,
black-eyed Princess of Darkness that night.
When the time comes that Man gives themselves up for Lady Lilith

that will be the second Fall. Buy her a drink.
Surrender yourself to her flawless body. Succumb to your just fears,
here in the bar of American Misery.