in the summer: she poured peach wine down my body. she folded her paisley hands into my hair. I made art for the dead prostitutes and the dead carpenter, and I made art for her.
in the nightclub: when the floor was red with liquor and gunshot, did they know?
in my heart: I’m scared that I’ll betray you when the rifles bring us down; I'm only hoping my switchblade can protect us now.
a mass shooting in a holy place in the summer I heard bodies dancing and laughing I heard bodies bleeding and dying I heard bodies I heard bodies in the summer
when I taste like judas, will you tell me? when we exit the tobacco smoke, will you tell me? I’ll betray you, I’ll betray you, and I don't want to, because if I could only breathe in your daisy chain hair, if I could only breath in your summer eyes, if I could only breath in you, I’d be singing of my revival from the hanging corpse life I have been living, and my aunt lisa’s gonna weep when I tell her about you.
i wrote this in the summer, after hearing news of the pulse shooting.