veins to young drowning in amber liquid stashed in duffle bags to pour down throats bibles pages rolled to form cigarettes clutched between burnt fingers throats exposed as smoke pushes of mouths with scarlet smiles made of red teeth and ****** lips god gave up on us years ago bones bent under a chapel ceiling ghosts spread inky fingers inside my chest and strum my ribs nights and days lost in a blacked out haze god asked to much of them