Song of the Sad Assassin

We lifted the body 
  from the water like a gown 
  You took off your bra 
  to wrap the wound, 
  though the man was dead 
  and there was no need. 
  Then your face turned red 
  when you said to me: 
  "I'll suck the marrow out and rape your hollow bones, Yoni." 

  Alone, putting three coins into a washing machine, 
  next to a caulked, cracked wall 
  in the basement on Fairmount Street, 
  I feel like a loop of the last eight frames of film before a 
  slow motion Lee Harvey Oswald 
  gets shot in the gut and killed 

  "Billy the kid did what he did and he died." 
  -Marilyn Hacker