Dictionary of Saints

These are the saints

A girl with a lesbian mother
and a butterfly stamp on her forehead
looking at a boy
The man who gave me that twangy guitar
before he died alone in his bed
and said,

Music is about

Silence

The woman who kept the carcasses
and bones of animals in her kitchen cupboards
and passed me at night under yellow streetlights
in a turtle neck jumper
and rummaged in bins on train platforms
while I ignored her and
defaced public property with a stolen texta
in a fit of unrequited love

The man who taught me my first three chords
while telling me his prison stories
and then duped me out of forty bucks
To go drinking

These are the saints
The ones I loved
and the ones I hated