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One more skeletal resolve
watch it break against the dawning shadows that dance the walls
leaching the life right out of the dream
A drunk that last long after you’ve dried up

and you wonder what’s left
after the obscene becomes ordinary
and the ordinary becomes obscene
all the pleasures on the vine
the vine with a crooked spine

So I’m throwing a search party

digging a hole
under the cork
under her dress
into my bed

nothing
nothing but the same

Use this gun like a telescope
down the barrel to the back of my skull
burn out stars infinitum
and let Vela sail through Gemini’s eyes

DeSalvo hand model

These hands swing hammers
Dirty work and touch the world
Swing at fences turn your screws

Call the signs at railroad symphonies
Grind diamonds out of the mind
and spin yarns to tie off your veins

They pretend a kiss and applaud spiders to their grave
They tap morse code into caskets
Brush strokes and hatchet swings
Throw origami dollars into collection plates

Vandalize with lovers blood
Shadow box memory ghosts
80 and abetting 88 latchkey tambourines
again and again over and over

They’re tempered in raw everything

They bare no rings they need no song
They’re more man than the man attached

mourning sickness (ex-oh ex-oh)

afternoon in June
violet in the bruise
Jail breaking the sound all over the metro grove
It’s High tide on the corner

taxi horns scrape the ears at intersection strobes
while we march on rubbish rose pedals
cruise on the swill of yesterday’s moan
and the wheel-well sea shells whisper their prayers

electric violins and butterscotch eulogies
for the stumble strut ghost-man
Tip your glass and spare some change
Victory in minor

Along the car-crash highway of a mans life
Rolling out of the wreck
Waiting for a morning worth waking up to
amazed at the hay-maker beat of his own heart

He steps out into the day-lit swarm
lights one up to remember her kiss
replays the dream
and saves his love a dance in the blood puddle mirror

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