if stitches won't dissolve then
how will
i ever open my mouth again

if i was made of parts i could call my own, i said, i'd be a lot better
but i have no choice

angles of presupposed superiority
in floodwaters i am thrown to you

torched the abandoned barn in the middle of the woods with you last night
you said you'd never forget it but you'd try and i said nothing to you

i am an orphan
until my organs function and my heart beats and my hands move correctly
i am surely made of glass, and through no fault or choosing of my own
have been abandoned by my own flesh and crumbling bones

i am a surrogate for someone else
i was never here

travelers be warned
last flight to the sun
must have forgot my baggage
we have to go back
sorry

fighting battles over grudges i'd forged with myself
talking to myself on the sidewalk
outside of the motel

when the police finally did arrive i said nothing

i couldn't care to remember you even if i wanted to

you lying pathetic *****
you cheap *******
you held me close
and peeled through my intestines like a tapeworm

our relationship was parasitic and
it is over now

the tides have come for me
the lights in the watchtower scream now
i am carried away in a fluorescent red wave of relief

i am at ease
i am at rest
i can never escape