Call nights stretch forever,
Slinkies of the soul.
But before blue skies come,
There will be
Missed heartbeats,
Bullets to the head,
Strangled bowels and
Cries.
After work I will drink
In morning sun and wine.
Drink till my lips are purple.
Drink till I exhale,
And crawl under eider down.
The windows and I dream
To feel that cool breeze
I still remember
When I sat by the river.
I am too young, though not for long,
To be this weary.
The nights are endless.
The days are bountiful,
Beyond measure
Beyond the far away ocean I visited as a child.
And I know,
The living always win,
A death rattle fills a room,
And we two my dear,
Swim in this quiet life.
Till we are swallowed whole,
Or chewed to pieces.
Lost, forever,
To the wind and the water.
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