Dad is pissed, and when dad gets home, you know
what he says? “You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been
a bad little girl.” She says, “Dad, I’m fin-
domming a former Fox News host, so no,
I haven’t got the time right now to go
get stuck in the dryer.” Noah’s daughter-sin
beglooms the turbid dreams of certain men,
Freudful, untalked, uncured, and just as slow
as nightfall in the Arctic in July:
thawed, mosquitoed, muddy, half-divorced
and dreading the dream’s end: you bolt awake
and realize: I am just afraid to die.
Each Richard’s kingdom sinks and ends unhorsed
brittle-boned and burned as well-done steak.