magnolia2

C. Famine Pulse

brick by brick
the knight eclipsed
put back your prickle thorn

tried to sleep
the knife, three slits
into this life I'm born

heaven's just a scab away
I'd like to see you after just one taste

sink your teeth into
the flesh of midnight
none forevermore
let them see you're happy, girl
the others are become...

if you should see the dice
charm with its snake choke eyes
you'll wear the widow's weeds
because they're just your size

your harmless desecration
bleeds you, dry-heave, and absolves
the limbless procreation
let the infant crawl before

let God replace the breath
of these suffocating sheets
and now I am afraid I caused
a scratch for itchy sleep

and soon
come on, if you don't know...
come on, if you don't know...

sink your teeth into the flesh
into the flesh of midnight
not forevermore
sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight
not forevermore

you've got to follow the whispers
cisterns flooding deaf ears
that now tow a river
in her barren womb mirror

and his multiple sons
with their mandible tongues
said crucify, fight your petrified homes

I wanna wanna wanna wanna let it burn
I wanna wanna wanna wanna let it burn

and the owls they were watching
and the owls didn't care
and the owls came a'knockin
full circle, ring the stairs

they will feel more the carnage
left over from the flood
will their mad triple-color eyes
flood sister L'Via
sister L'Via

now the geishas were floating
they reflect a hollow dusk
conceived from the stab wounds
this business of lust


thank you.