The Pike is Two Faced

The Pike will turn on her,
and drown her in her own juices,
and slide what's left of her out to the river;
you know, the one that washes away all the sins,
but the baptists and bluesmen who hold court by that river will shoo her
sorry ass far from their happy shores.....
and on she will float,
bloated, short, useless-
to some untold and mundane oblivion.

~ M. Lucia