The methadone bride shows her
twisted silhouette at the end-of-the-pier
theatre.
Each night pushing to transform the look
with another double-barrelled revelation.
Season to season she is confirmed:
the angel of the stage.
But they only invest indifference
in their glorious apparition.
While she invests in another
one-way ticket to her murder scene.
Oh!  Tormented mercy!
Each night engulfed in this illegal war
each night a product of guilt that she vowed.
Inside this glitz and glamour fortress,
she paints a face of
fun and love and heartache,
while her instincts search for
death in the street.