howl my name to this yellow witching hour moon
run with me through this enchanted snow ridden forest
we can run with the pack
and go off to explore the many wonders
of this enriched ******* white ground
bury a few bones, catch a deer or two, together.
Creatures of the wind
swift, like a spensarian sonnet
harsh, like the rough seas
cold, as my beating heart
beautiful, as the eyes that stare back into mine
with nothing but instinct and desire behind them

Take the stones that break your bones
And build a house that is a home
Etch your eyes into the mirrors
So you can see yourself clearer
Drag your hands across the walls
Walk your paramore through the halls
Walk up to the attic and rehash old memories
Of adolescence, music, and psychedelic drugs
Run through the forest of trees that surround your house
and bring you to your knees
Take the stones that break your bones
and build a house, that makes you feel at home

In the presence of giants, I puff out my chest and stand tall
It all depends on what you believe is true
When the doctors put on their crow masks
and tell you that you'll be dying soon
you'll feed the vultures
and stand on the shoulders
of giants big and small
you let the world fall
on a hinge we awake trembling over what we think we know is true
on a whim we take a ride to an irrelevant place to waste precious time
Death and Sin make an ever so adorable couple
until you learn about the family history
If it's all the same, I'll take a number
I'll let it stay a mystery

I walk, I stretch, I move hair out of my face
they all stare
I trip, I stutter, I say something earnest
they all laugh
I look, I spy, I watch
Enveloped they are with their own lives
the worst of it all is that
all these queer stares, the conceited laughter, the daunting suspicion
this throbbing anxiety making my hands shake, like a ****** apparition
Is all me
it's in my head
I wish I weren't so self conscious
I wish I had better control
I wish the poison completely calmed it
As to apprehend my torn up soul

So it goes...
So it goes...

Words do nothing but sink in
like skipping stones and cheap gin
The burn of your elixir as it goes down proud
making your mind so numb and your needs too loud
Hoping you won't offend the one you admire
you light the match and fuel the fire
It's all hazy twist and turn
some kind of crazy third degree burn
so if I am to lose what I hoped to
Surrender myself and go through
the stages of belligerent indiscretion
filled with mild pills and misdirection
tell my story, as I would tell it
like alice, the queen, and the white rabbit
nothing, oh nothing but what is true
turn back the times, I'm falling for you

Set me on fire like a wooden mirror
full fledged desire a night seen so clear
a moonlit night, but try as I might
a paramore, a beauty, a sultry sight
skeletal trees imposing upon our sleep
we're taken apart and thrown to the breeze.
can't you see? with the smoke in your lungs
and the fires burning us down

In the longing of a falling star
A cascade of near and far
these blackened lungs with a blackened heart
will soothe us all or tear us apart
Trying, but if I should fail
scratch me with your fingernails
leave me scars I can't erase
even if my mind's forgotten your face

bite deeply into my skin
give me just one more sin
kiss my lips until they're blue
perhaps i'm falling for you
light me up and burn me down
steal away my only crown
follow birds into the far
leave me with only these scars

I'll trace your body with my tongue
blow smoke in my blackened lungs
Make me feel I've been so numb
I'll make your heart beat like a drum
inhale me like your cigarettes
kiss me like i'm your last breath
dig your nails into my back,
grey burned lungs soon to collapse

Inhale me like your cigarettes
kiss me like I'm your last breath

Trace me with your fingertips
Write a story from my scars
And a novel from my eyes
You are a great writer after all

Tell me about your dreams
You said you wished they had more color
Black and White dreams still come true

I held your hair back when you reached your limits
You have my back when it's needed
We have both gone to the universe and back.
Brothers.

We met through a friend
We became best friends in a night
We've been through everything
Transcended all the *******
You have to leave the state soon
I'll visit you as soon as possible


You said you thought my name was Thomas
We had girlfriends that were best friends
How funny that both those ended exactly the same
We've made much music together, and one
blood promise


I met you on the way to smoke at a distant friend's house
We smoked cigarettes and discussed life
Then it changed to getting hammered and
making plans for the future
We can change the world