AFTER DARK MY SWEET: i
A Cento

I muttered running
headlong down the stairs. ii
It is impossible
for you to refuse me now. iii

She called me.
She wanted to see me.
She wanted to have lunch with me.
She wants to fuck me...again. iv

The poor little thing
crawled up to accomplish
the first act of her penance. v
The woman and the pony
were posed before velvet draperies,
which were fringed
with deedlee balls. vi

  1. After Dark My Sweet, Jim Thompson
  2. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  4. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
  5. 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade
  6. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut