river bends and splits,
cradles town like a crab claw,
brown beads, the wooden posts
bad teeth,hushed up family arrest
poor fake jewelery,round young girls leg,
trailer, lit up bridge like upturned neon smile,
choke, hair, your hair is too long
judge,jury, unicorn handler
flashing light beats hurt free beer for the queer,
cold detest my boys gonna be a fisherman,
just like me, make, hurt, string up.
paint,sandpaper,chisel
fade the family from quit 3 points left,
photos cut,toy scissors, blunt,safety
type,type the serial number
jewelery shop window,walk slow like the old people
dance in the windows of shops
my boys growing into a girl
butterfly i stamped on
moth to a flame
like a tattoo breaking the flesh
rite of passage denied,liar,liar liar.
cops run slow,drink the glue fall 3 paces
metal bridge replace wooden one hanging stops for month
dissappear into hills,past drop gate
they cut trees,shoot deer, fish for salmon
and take girls not old enough to understand.
blood splinter glass rip into fleshy chicken wing wrist
puncture arterie flatten vein snap thumb
video camera three hours running time approximately
stone face flint shatter bruise,black eyes
rows of the wooden cabins made to look inviting
flannel shirt apparel,two buses late at night> no drinking on board,
policed by themselves always, law forgot about.> hushed up not judged,
high in the hills,
drunk on whiskey,
the men drink, the women bleed and bruise
punch throat,respirator,
carving happiness from these walls,
elevator.ascend.descend. |