i. smoky fingers curl around the heart-beat pulse-beat song-beat and wrench out the bricks one at a time the rasp of flesh latching on cement, the grating grinding of stones lunging out, and the scream as they fall in the dark rabid waters the building erodes in the fog the building erodes in the storm the building erodes like everything erodes and my heart erodes with it and in it and among it
ii. he has never known fear and that is why he climbs up scales up cringes up the never ending walls that is why he clings to the bricks as they are torn out and that is why he hopes that he too will fall and that is why he wants to erode because erosion is the melting, the harsh corrosive acid leaching away, erosion is the secret to a long and beautiful and happy and irony-drenched life
iii. gray mud spatters - no, it swallows - no it consumes like a monster, a monster with tendril claws and poisonous fangs, and it eats you with a flick of its jaw - no, it erodes gray mud erodes in the twin way of the world, gray mud is the thing that erodes you and your love and your lover and it's the thing that is eroded until one day it's gone and nothing will ever erode again
iv. he is covered in gray mud, and i am covered in gray mud, and my skin is rebelling against the cold slick slimy tingling creature that ***** the bruises away, but he welcomes it he always welcomes everything more than i do and maybe that's the reason maybe that's the hidden reason why the world is eroding