her slicked hair is long and flowing shining, glistening, glowing, growing into flowers, bright and budding while the light continues flooding her with nutrients, like those raining onto her black boughs, necks craning as we pass her, aquaplaning slamming straight into the railing as our lights go out, they're spinning and the devil's eyes are grinning and the horn's stuck, it's still sounding rounding out the scene, confounding our ascent, the tone is ringing in our phantom ears, and singing us to the abyss it's calling we were floating, now we're falling while our lady stands there lurking and her sensual lips are smirking her long fingernails are scraping a straight line, through those she's shaping to form numerals, she's counting scoring victims, numbers mounting scrawling up her branches, tickling her sweet trunk, her sap is trickling strengthened by success she's sheathing her stretched roots, she resumes breathing s