(Lauren Kaye Scott:
7 April 1994-9 June 2021)
Dakota is 27,
chemicals percolate blood
beneath her flawless skin,
she gazes lost across the blue pool
to the palms that bend the
waiting mouth of blue LA sky,
her bare toes tap on clean tiles,
her coffee drips a vagina shape,
she smiles and stirs it away,
her ghost in the patio glass
has clicked away beauty in
onscreen pulse by pulse,
Dakota is a star,
people hunt her name
in incognito searches,
Xanax percolates her blood,
Dakota is 27
Andrew Darlington
Pic: Claire Palmer
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