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If there's lightning where you are
I hope it strikes you
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why you crave what you crave
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I don't know why she kept a whole ocean
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I thought of fast cars,
the ones that would hit the hardest
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it's not like I'm promised anything
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and you're in love with the friends
who are killing you inside
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next comes
frequent aches
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until the ground opens up
to swallow half the seas
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The structure
of your laughter
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She ties the sun in her hair
with a ribbon that's cherry red in color.
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In the evening, when she meets up
with some girl you passed on the highway,
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to please that giant ocean
while it's singing an apology
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you're a smiling creature, a half-full boy
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build me up from calloused fingers
give me six strings and a tune
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the blues were sprinkled over you / and they floated, fell, / rested softly on every breath / you let into your lungs / and you're so fragile / when you're like this / maybe it's not so bad- / you
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When I'm red, / I write. / I write with red ink, / with strained fingers, / with flaming intentions. / I write about cherry lip smiles, / about red hot frustrations, / about uncontrollable energy
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your mother follows me around town / in that same tan vehicle / she used to pick you up in / I glance out my window / and see her / she's t
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'cause you like being wild
with me
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Synonyms taugh us that a path is the same thing as a trail, but us-we've been down a road.
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Chalked in blue, / the sidewalk reads- / "Kill two birds with one stone." / So I think I'll break my mother's back / while I stomp you down into the crack / where you can be alone.
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"If I get in trouble, it'll be your fault." / "Well I never told you to skip too." / "Yes, but I'm doing it BECAUSE of you. Really." / ~~~
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Prayer never rested in my hands / when they were folded tight. / The ground never saved a place / for my weak knees to kneel. / Faith never found it's home / in the naive mind that I possessed. / Love never bloome
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if you taste me / please don't waste the pieces / that are stuck between your teeth / I will wear away slowly / I will become your cavity / (what a shock, what a shock, / what a shock to smile and see) /
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peeling through thick layers of skin unknown to me, / dismantling my protective cage of bones, / untangling messy lengths of veins and arte
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today is the first day / well that shows what I know / my bones are anything but brittle / they're coated completely in metal / / this morning I'm something totally new / / but it's too bad for the high school
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I just want to see you cured.
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Your skirt is nothing But a dark centipede now,
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