May 13, 2013

Knuckle Song

by Brandon Green (author's profile)

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04.14.2013

*Knuckle Song*

Bleed with me inside
Have internal organs quiver and cry
Lying still as death two leagues under cold
Cement

Say with me as honest as you can
One day you'll rise above this place
Even though ninety percent don't
And five of that ten suicide

Sleep dreams of women wrapping rope
Continually around bloody necks
Meeting strangers. Placing fingers inside
Chest cavity first thing discerning
Devil or man

Corpses litter dreamscape like spilled pills
Upon waking stumble from delusion
To confusion. To delusion. To...

Sun blasts skin like vampire
Can feel craziness peel off like snakeskin
Despair trickles upward like August pavement
Sadness evaporates like
The five percent who make it

Open arms. With me I'll always be
Able to empathize, visualize suffering
Two leagues under frozen, choppy
Sea

Write with me as you die beside
Me. Comment on my soulful, pain filled
Eyes. But please look away
Just whisper the degree deserving
Deathbed cries

Nurse I'm no longer. Please
Shut my eyes. Run your fingers
Over my swollen, soundless, frozen
Kiss goodbye

Underground I hear the cars
The feet coming, going, leaving
Sweet birdsong and thunderclaps. Possibly
Next grave over her pretty bones will
Tap - tap tap...

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