You were trying to cover your footprints in the sand and only ended up leaving more a spiral of your perfectionism look over there - over the beach houses on stilts and the fauna - scrap metal bushes and dry, lonely trees - see how the sun’s kiss sets the sky on fire? the water is licking our heels with an icy, arctic tongue we could walk westwards until our silhouettes are vaporized but the sand is relaxed and this beach is empty the acoustic guitar is talking in its sleep ADD children are doing backflips in the backyard
Night crashes and crashes and recedes into the horizon we climbed atop one another with visions of lunar satisfaction time slows down and each drop of condensation on the window contains the secrets of this muggy southeastern air the strangers are encroaching too thick to think warped monstrous faces ripe with desire we couldn’t answer the questions so we burned the test tinder to our fire so we could ward off the predators for another night but the ground is growing smaller day by day
Mr. Demon do not deviate from this round of double dutch my shoelaces are tied together and I am hopelessly drunk off of your ideas on romance that mix of sunscreen, sweat, perfume, and your breath as my fingers prune we mistook the blinking jet engine for morse code from the stars once the clouds part we will have an escape route taking flight with the startled panic of street birds the earth will shake, the seas boil over, and the clouds will applaud with wings made of coat hangers, brown paper bags, and masking tape we will arr through the sky like fireworks