Moonwatcher from Cold Coming by Zip Tang

Street walker
Beneath the meteor shower
Like an artificial flower
Growing in a sidewalk crack
She is the moonwatcher

She sleeps beneath the Fullerton bridge
Where the apparition of the virgin lives
On the concrete wall an oddly shaped stain
Above the spot where her dreams were slain

No one intervened between then and fifteen
The lithium that helped her
Washed down with liquor
The search for in-between
Regression toward the mean

The dragon you chase has killed too many queens
Come hell or high water
Forgotten daughter
Modern Mary Magdalene
Crystal methamphetamine

You didn’t realize the time was right
To let go of the dragon’s tail
The slimy scales

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