From Body Double

Scene 36
(Detective What’s His Name at night struggles with a hotel door)

locked out naked key
steam vapor haze 
hot trouble        no luck with locks and doors lately
fumbles               naked difficulty
Detective What’s His Name swallows the key.
forfeits the game.

between heaves. a man drips 
with paint. the rat 
is dead in the rue below 
after all. these nights. 
are of squeaking.


Scene 38

memory plate lapse
body double




Scene 40

turn around walk back the way you came wouldn’t want you to see this 
good evening lean against me a gun under your eyes
now.



Scene 44
(I, alone)

Can I escape. make a clean getaway
shimmy up. drain pipe.
hoist. my body. 
over the stone wall.
to another side.

or will I get caught. up in. the trap of images. 


Go on your way evening boulevard.

lacerer
maroufler
lacerées marouflées

beat it
dust
do it again
make air

call my bluff

mister monsieur detective
you