the body spills
how mindless she travels like you question a river
of why there's an image.
a pattern evolves. somehow she catches your eye.
stepping over a sudden crack in the bank.
where's the shoreline now?
fades to a staggering blank.
are you spinning are you banging your hands on the glass?
it's not breaking and this breath could be your last.
longevity breeds a generation of names it's so punishing to let go
to let go and stay the same.
(some say drowning is painless if you can fight the urge to breathe.
i'm face down in the waves and i can't stop the swallowing.)
she wrecks another and the body spills by the lake.
is it moving?
look at her hands look at her legs.
do they shake?
she wrecks another and the body spills by the lake.
did you know her or the lines in the pattern you make?
longevity breeds a generation of names it's so punishing to let go
to let go and stay the same.
(some say drowning is painless if you can fight the urge to breathe.
i'm face down in the waves and i can't stop the swallowing.)
the future of sex
he lives like an amateur
always looking for the path of least resistance.
he lunges for the opening
leaves behind his private trail of tears
he doesn't hold on.
in coming, in coming, in coming, in coming
down to the shelter and everyone's gone.
we need common enemies
hold me, will you darling
i should feel consumed by you
the future will deliver me
soft sounds for the living
hurry to this hollow of mine...
it's the future of sex
and i will not be armed
when the bottom falls out
it was not for love
if the future is next
let me not warn
cause when the bottom falls out
i will be in coming in coming in coming in coming
red down the middle
the girls go secretly to bed
with their backs to the doorway.
whether they pass on to sleep doesn't matter.
they turn on.
bitches don't wear black.
they wear soft colored nightgowns
and we hear better in the dark.
the girls wake up and turn their heads.
there were lights in the hallway.
shouldn't they go back to sleep
if there's no light to turn on?
bitches don't stand back.
they just wait in the hallway
and we hear better in the dark.
i could count the cars from bed.
(there were lights in the hallway.)
down the middle i see red
but there was no sound to turn on.
bitches don't stare back
they just fade out the detail.
and we hear better in the dark.
i did not mean to leave you this
but there was nothing else to leave.
you are all that i can see and you don't come to me.
bitches don't flash back
they just fade in the background.
and we hear better in the dark.
i did not mean to hand you this
but there was nothing else to me.
you are all i need and you're so willing.
bitches don't give back they just hang under retail.
and we hear better in the dark.
everybody all the same with the same story each time.
never one but many names.
all the same story each time.
vicious love attack and create all the details.
we hear better in the dark.
sender
i walk sideways in half the time
it isn't that long
but i don't wait
they are behind and far away
but hope dies hard
hope finds a way.
he doesn't like it when i say
but i rattle on about you anyway
and i feel wrong and unaware
it's like i just don't get the culture under here.
but instead of breaking in or falling out
my life is going limp
my will is hanging by a thread
and i just can't follow through without it.
hope dies hard. hope finds a way.
i walk sideways i wait a long turn.
hope dies hard. hope finds a way.
four.one.five
pull the covers off me
so i can see you in the dirt of the morning
and if i fall from mattress to floor
you could just drag the body down
and if i am still beneath by afternoon
a series of carefully arranged rules
enough to deliver me.
lift the heavy off me
so i can feel the light pouring into me
and if i am small when i should not
you could just pump the body up
and if i am still beneath by count of ten
don't think i haven't got arrangements
for stealing a breath or two
taking it right from you
and don't be afraid.
it isn't all that hard
i'm just the same as air
a million tiny threads
and not one single day
comforting the dead
and holding out for life.
the machine cannot forget
mechanics are desperate like me.
unrehearsed even though
thousands of hours in places like these.
adults are desperate and mean
overdressed even though
thousands of dollars and magazines
tripping wires long ago dead
so speech flows and reaches sorrows.
adults are desperate like mechanics
marooned for life on distant planets
babies born of time and panic
what i would do if i'd remember to.
humans are born and then they're gone
infinite worlds maintained in one
we contact none.
adults are distant, lost on planets
marooned for life by mathematics
equations solving time with panic
what i would do if i'd remember to.
said to nothing
at times the hardest part of being
is being still
how it seems nothing ever rests
if nothing moves does time exist?
motion seems endless
and still still looks like dead from here.
i've found the hardest part of doing
is doing nothing
nothing while i'm watching time collapse
an ending that's motionless
tomorrow i will change
said out in space, to nothing
take myself out of range
i will stay off location
abandoning my station
out in space, to nothing
tomorrow i'll behave
tomorrow i will change myself
said while out in space
to no one
save particles that do define my limitations
in this plane.
they are contained in every speck of dust
that binds me in a world
of physics.