Marble

Ivory pillars illuminated by spotlights

form two rows of columns, like some Roman architecture,

that lead to double doors of a mansion in Hollywood Hills,

scents of gourmet cuisine blend with expensive wines

as naked bodies heap together in writhing ecstasy

 

It’s a party that happens every night

overdose deaths never even remembered the next time,

they’ll be buried with loving phrases on marble headstones,

which no “friends” will ever even see

because it would take time away for the next orgy.