Elephants

I am burned at
the bottom,
now I know
I am not a cat.
Need a lift
from Herr Doktor Proffeseur.
I hope you are all right,
my tall ones. Your stains are
but a simple spread, not
deep and cardinal sinews
as mine are...
Water took me to
Siam to the capital
where my creatures were.
My visions of my past
growled and talked at me,
and now here I was
their master,
their cucumber moustache.
I was their doll,
I am their undoing, and
I will be their afternoon in a gazebo.
But my creatures do not
remember that time,
that cab ride,
that walk,
those girls
that fell to the side.
They only remember the switches
that purpled their hide...
You are asleep
in your hotel room.
Your eyes move behind
your thin lids
like ballerina orbs sheathed
in skin.  Your heads
will work forever,
my tall ones.