City of Needles

Resplendent on my bed of nails
with laser light — my peep show,
I can see the serpent lady peeping through my perforations
Cold as knives Revolving on five icepicks, clockwise, sliced
Hey, Sailor — Come on by and sit in my cocoon
Sixteen minutes on the rotorblades, hemmed in.
The simulations swim in through the bloody cracks
your invention, Their persuasion, my — perversion
Take a light speed spin down headless hole
and feel the deprivation
We offer benders in the blenders,
red-hot pokers in the eyes
Yet we guarantee you’ll all survive
You’ll meet your fear, and see it’s bigger, so much bigger than you feared!