(A Broken Arms foundry. written early '07.)
I could have cried just then in the recognition of movement
splayed out along the sidewalk on the way to timmys
headphones turned too loud tearing my bag wide open
by the gas station pumps on the side of the road
paper and pen
I spill the words like wind from my throat just then
danced on the words ground them hard into the pages
my heels caught the sharp edges of capitals and vowels
I could have cried just then in the cold and learning
my fingers emblazoned and howling
my hand along the light blue lines cascading
frost marks of india ink fingerprints on my cheeks
I've still got so much more to teach myself
and a hell of a lot more to learn
and what you don't know is that
I'm going to burn like sublimation
and never ever tire out
cut the lungs from the torrential
weather that we call inspiration
grasp the muscles of my victim
and never ever put it down
I've got a lot to teach myself and a lot to learn
dancing on the sharp edges of the words
I'm gonna bleed this motherfucker out
and
what you don't know
is that a severed arm span
is not conducive to my needs
I'll have broke my bones stretched
the skin from shoulder blade
to fingertip and back again
to obtain whatever means
what you don't know is that
I have a body tattooed and trembling
and that inside that body
is a soul that feeds wide mouthed
like an accident needing meaning
a soul that is sympathetically singing
bring on the collision one more time
let's do this thing just one more time
with feeling
what you don't know
is the less that I say
the more I have to speak
what they don't know
is the distance I can grow
the lengths I'll pull myself
limb from limb roots from the tree
busted pulpits and morning glory seeds
sprout from concrete like with mental serpentine
stretching the mile where I remember how to believe
how the hardest ones can feel so crazy inside
but when it all comes out / everything is fine
what you don't know is that is that this is the mile where I prove myself
untouchable and holy crying out with hope to not simply fade away
this has to be the road where I prove myself to myself
where I prove them all wrong with my shoulder blades
these are the tears on my face
black india ink fingerprints on my cheeks
these are the tears in my just waking throat
the spilling winds of necessity
a lotus amidst the movement
peeling and raining
a downpour that is stripping
the oil and varathane from me
in heavy dousing fogs of fire and steam
if I were to burn alive in front of you tonight
I would be the one to know just what to do
to end this thing properly
to bleed this motherfucker through
if I were to burn alive in front of you tonight
I should shut my mouth just one more time
bleed silence dry and let it be the last time
I'll be the one to scream and cry out
open my mouth just one more time
bleed silence dry and let it be the first time
you will never find my body
you will never find my body
between the pages of this book
you will never find my body
at the edge of the moor or moat
you will never find my body
a lotus amidst the storming
you will never find my body
scorched in the words I wrote
a lotus amidst the movement
these are the tears on my face
dancing on the sharp edges of the words
for every day for every ounce of what it's worth
'til the day I die from the day I was birthed
cut my heels on the movement of words
dancing on the sharp edges of what I will learn
gonna bleed this mother fucker out