Weeping metal in uniform bursts
Pass down the lament
From rock to rock
Sun to son
            Which was first?
             The hunger or thirst?

I’m as bad as it gets
And as good as I feel
The fallout has left me to die
And I recently learned
She was only concerned
Of my requiem
Chaos stopped by

So the bomb’s embroilment
Greets at my door
To the monsters and passerby’s
And away in a plane
My dear love disdains
As a widow
She only cries

The learning stone’s ancient tick
Divides silence
Causes tension
“School of fish”
Caught in a sink, watch
they sink

I’ll play the boy
And you play the girl
As we pretend that we mean
More to the world

My dull willed
Conscious
And blushing desire
As we pretend that we’re close
From between these two wires

You play the queen
And I’ll play it too
As we pretend that I mean
Anything to you

I see my life in
3rd person, out of body
From the little half circle in the wall
Where the mouse hides in its cave

The atmospheres melancholy roar
Midwest urban floor
Spoken with deep drawn vowels
Sweat like nectar
As Mr. Crow scowls
From gravestone to telephone pole
Emotion walks with a cane

I’m not going home tonight
She kissed my check goodbye
In the dark I am one but in the light under her sun
I’m not going home tonight

Piety screamed out for release and now
I believe in
Only her

I fell asleep and dreamed
Of theories death can’t sing
The souls that pass through aren’t aware of me and you
I fell asleep and dreamed

Piety screamed out for release and now
I believe in
Only her