Hollywood Haiku

Hollywood Haiku
—for Kenneth Anger
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Bette Davis smirks—
Pushes Joan Crawford
Down the fucking Stairs

Barbara Stanwyck—
Is simply going crazy
Sorry Wrong Number!

Sylvia Plath freaks—
The electric chair sizzles
The Rosenberg’s fry

Zap goes the voltage—
Snap goes the hangman’s noose
Squirt goes the needle

Zodiac Killers—
Jack the Rippers & their knife
Lady Killers Lite

Hiroshima booms—
Nagasaki Belly-Up
Fukushima blows

Killer Delilah—
John the Baptist’s bloody head
On silver platter

Katrina the Bitch—
Wiping out the Big Easy
Vieux Carré murder

The color purple—
The dead colors black and blue
When I think of you

Oedipus chartreuse—
When I think of Mother
Making love in bed

How homicidal—
Smashing young Abel’s brains in
My Mark of Cain grin

Dear Miss Lonelyhearts—
All my girlfriends end up dead
At night under my bed

Cute Warren Beatty—
My Mondo Illustrato
Dead gigolo slut

Doing the down-low—
Brando and Baldwin lovers
Poor Mr. Chicken

Bonnie and Clyde—
Romeo and Juliet
Dillinger and me