She was very vulnerable. He kept giving her dope, and she kept snorting it. To make a long story short, her brains bled out her nose and she died after thrashing around on the floor for three minutes while no one did anything to help her.
Seeing Nellie. South Miami Beach. Collins&17th.
7.8.2004
Michelle Greenblatt
I thought you were dead Nellie, I could have
sworn your mother called me screaming
that you were “D-E-A-D” for she could not
even say the word
but there you were down in South Beach
during the Memorial Day Weekend Festival
hunched on a dirty sidewalk
skin lucent with heroin fever; now I could
have sworn you were dead Nellie
even A. told me so and cried to me about it
by the pool at his house on the beach
instead of fucking with me as usual
he said you were gone Nellie
and I think he may have even been sober
for just that one night
but I saw your black hair
and black clothing Nellie
wide brown eyes lined in black
skinny frail body
slumped against a moldy wall,
head lolling around with pleasure
do you remember when we used
to go to Checkers Nellie and get those
French fries you loved so much—
but even if I did see you, it was not you,
only someone that looked like you, Nellie,
and certainly they were not alive either.
7.8.2004
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