It’s an odd sort of news to
find laying on the doorstep
“New life coming soon
dedication expected
Punnet right unknown”
you’re left with
an excited fear,
A shaking look to the
empty sun,
knowing your sky will have stars
oh so soon.
The fear will set in first you
don’t have the money
don’t have the space
don’t know the last thing about
trails of crumbs or playrooms.
Hope will blemish its smart eye...
i knew only nothing
on the day i was born
i rolled in the snow and
drank the nectar and
i think i was
clean
when i woke up
fog deeper in my head than
the first owners of this
are deep in the landfills
i knew nothing
a clean and empty slate
had i found a hand
i would’ve held it
i smiled
before the second eye opened
and i knew the world and my sister
I didn’t, of course
find a hand there with me
I...
There is an instant
Millennia after the eye
Sweeps your wretched form
Where the pink moonlight
You missed in Tennessee
Seems to rip through clouds
Where you forget
On a second,
Deeper layer,
The lies you gave
And the light burns
Your dying skin away
But the clouds return
In their due time
They gather like the vultures
Over your sister’s carcass
And you are lost in their
Embrace again
Forgetti...
Oh
Well there’s
Flowers in the winter time
A a cold breeze in late June
My darling ain’t some glitzy queen
But she sure knows how to move
Yes an’ we ran away from Lafayette
Dreaming of Desolation Row
But telephones and graduation gowns
Greeted us wherever we’d go
So run me down
And let me remember
The things that hunt me now
As I run
It’s been nine months now, since I left Houston
Three since I ...
Their skin against your skin
The fruit between your teeth
Forget about suits and ties
Buried deep underneath
You be reduced nothing
Fusing with their flesh
An instant to eternity
Where you forget to rest
The juice is on your chin now
You’re screaming for the band
And you feel you’d do anything
Slaughter at their command
The moment of communion
Draws venom from your slack jaws
An instant to etern...
There is a writhing tendril
Of frying oil ‘gainst the sky
It is wrapping ‘round your arms it seems
Ain’t it so easy to die?
To bite upon the little-death
And hide inside the dreams
Spoon-fed to you as minnow chum
By paper in its reams
Learn to love your mother
And com-mu-ni-ty
Forget how the organs sound
Against the last tree
But nothing
In your everything
Will get you nowhere...
There is a fog in the valley
‘Twixt Hellenic slopes
Wherein you lost your fear
As the skylark fled
Away from the sickening waters
And sludge
Of your saccharine prison
You walk to the fog
Of their endless blood
Knowing the sheer drop
Is within it
The worst is yet to come
O stranger kin
Yet stones mustn’t roll alone
For fog draws down
When the rolling stops
Within fog you see your joy
And I can se...
Remember then
Back in ‘09
When the Brothers came to town?
And told us ‘bout
The hungry crowds
And showing them your doubt
They told us not
To run away
If we weren’t running to
I sat and dwelled
You ran away
You dance with Madeline
Now you see
You’ve been running
Since the days when I still knew you
When you still had me
And her and us
To come to when you fell
But you ran that night
You ran from...
There’s a storm in a teacup
‘Cause you’re saying goodbye
And you don’t understand yet
What it means to fly
There’s a storm in a teacup
And the money’s on the wall
Just waiting for you to take it
If you’d just stop your fall
There’s a storm in a teacup
That he was drinking at the bar
You’re saying he might be the one
Even if you barely know him
There’s a storm in a teacup
The kid was holding as ...
