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play me doo-wop
in my Texas tomb

watch me piss
through a broken window

cover me in fog
and asbestos

kiss me under a
crooked mask

paint me in blue
and green

watch me fall down
the stairs

lick my teeth when they fall out

vetiver grass and sticky cactus
I’m warm and prone to silence
such a heavy stone
drifting close to the bay
good times and bad times
living in a poorly written cliche
a stupid refrain

you had one prescription and
no identity when we knew
each other
a sheet in white
now look how far
that stone has strayed

elementary science
and community college philosophy
look how far that
stone has strayed
squeezed through a window
and down your back
but now I’m

I’m chewing cud and my
antlers are dull

I’m thinking of trucks
and in couplets

I’m chewing cud and
watching stones