Sometimes she’s Salome
Or just another jezebel
in the endless parade
and she falls like the stock market
and you rise like unemployment
and sometimes she falls but no one catches
her
she falls because she’s unsteady
never learned to walk before learning to fly
strange little bird that she is
when you let her out
of her gilded cage
she just goes looking for other nests
never learned to spread her wings
never learned a lot of things
still somehow she knows too much to be useful