all of the ashes around but still
you shine like the brightest star in the sky
i don’t understand
i probably never will
maybe it’s better that way
but i can’t keep my mouth shut
my face is frozen like this
a lump in my throat & a stone in my shoe
the world burning down around us but still
you shine like the brightest star in the sky
keeping me overflowing with
melted gold
the finest blood
my tears can never erase
lies under starlight
when what i need are
glorious meteorites crashing to earth
all the things i can’t say
or would mumble anyway
when all my shooting stars
are hiding on the other side
of the vast galaxy in my head
i know you can see them
& you know i know you would say
they’re all lies
but my head feels close to bursting
from a shortage of meteorites falling from heaven
& i know you know i can’t say
what i really want to say
mumbling & bumbling all my
lies under starlight
oh my so hilarious shadow
you take my breath away
with your crooked schemes & hijinx
until i cannot speak
my words caught like glass in my throat
oh my darling monster
my rapscallion from the underverse
it’s adorable how
you take my breath away
leaving my gasping in the dark
shaking with fear like a tree in a storm
my oh so delirious demon
sucking out all the light until
you take my breath away
& i lie down
& i curl up
& i can’t speak for drowning in better things
soon soon sleep so
satisfied surprise
so so soon slipped
so far out the slide
so goodbye to the eyes
lovely little vision
little looser glass
sleep so soon in deep
stymied by the sun
said zero soon soon
so sleepy when we’re done
said goodbye surprised
glossy little vision
goose a looser love
goodbye goodbye
gone sleepy out the side
i can’t hear the mermaids singing
maybe i never could
but at least i’m half-awake
even when i’m gasping for air
clutching at photographs
trying to remember the last time i was
half-asleep on a crescent moon
drifting through kaleidoscopic
dance party at the witching hour
the same song plays again & again
every time i put fear & whiskey in the jukebox
