How Does Mandingo Have

In another apartment

It floats in two parts
to the floor above
smell of borax
and old quarrels

the neighbor returned
flapping his heels trot
her skirt rubbing on her thighs
then she drags the show

superintendent tambourine
furtively at his door
then fly
candles shining on the bath

Felicien
before him in the hissing of wicks
had known hear
a flight of pigeons

hastily but clever
he loses hungry
as tasty broth
their rails asynchronous

jaws contracted
until the last startle
keeper's breathless
in the belly of his ex.