PSYCHO II

“I lingered under—

needles of scalding water”

—Scott Heim

The Death of Anthony Perkins

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Anthony Perkins—

Pretty much seemed

Dead already

Not as dead—

As Vera Miles was

Dead though

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Snooping through—

The Bates basement

Only to meet her doom

A butcher knife—

That bulls-eyed her

Screaming mouth

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I spend all my—

Time in the asylum

From day to day

Drugs simmering—

In my arteries and

Varicose veins

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Miss Hitchcock—

Superimposes a grinning

Skull on my face

And then Scott Heim—

Crawls into bed with me

No Vacancy in this place