Lunatic extroadinare

Just for the record: I didn’t want to blow it all up,

I just wanted to hurt myself a little bit

While you were out East, and I was asleep,

With a tapestry hanging between us

Of the flowering California valley;

It’s not enough water to bloom beyond May 

But for star-thistle eating up the roadside.

Thirty-one days into wildfire season

I think you began to despise me.

All week it was ashes—

The sky was so yellow—

Flying into our open mouths and eyes;

We watched the great columns

Of livid black smoke

All up and down the highway.

It’s dry as the devil; let’s keep driving west ‘til we drown.

And just for the record: I didn’t really wish I was dead,

I just wanted to get out of the sun

When I said baby, I’m burning out here,

It’s a hundred-ten degrees and I’m tired.

You just started smiling with fluorescent teeth,

Glowing like scorpions under a blacklight;

Stop kissing me nauseous,

Stop biting my tongue,

Stop picking up the roadkill and bringing it home.

Get it out of me, I don’t care (Don’t care!!)

If you have to cut it free or

If it’s gonna make me sicker (I’m gonna be!!)

Perfect---close to perfect---for the

Great matryoshka fascination: 

Starving, clawing, amputation

Shrinking me, shrinking me

I’ve been trying hard to be 

Very hard to see,

Like a shape behind a screen,

A diaphanous machine.

Oh I’ve been waiting for the day;

I'm indifferent to the gunshot foxtrot,

Baby it's a thrill just dancing teeth to teeth!

Are you looking for a caller or a blind-spot?

Maybe I've been making up the figures just to see you follow my lead...

But you talk in photographs,

A sharp-eyed bird of prey,

Caught up in the hack-and-slash but

If you'd put that gun away

For time enough to look me in the eyes, you’d find

As long as you let my heart beat it beats for you and only you…..

But I’m just a creature feature in your killing spree,

Even though I’m made for you and you were made for me!!

“I mean, putrid bogs and foggy woods—and always kept at polite stalking distance—you never take me anywhere nice, and– uh, is that a crucifix? Are you hunting other monsters? Hey! Don’t walk away from me you motherf--!”

How could anybody possibly be so conceited?

You only ever look at me when deciding where to drive the knife!

So I'll try not to die, if you try not to die.

(The price of triumph is perdition in the bitter end...)

We might find love in the bitter end...

But you talk in photographs,

A sharp-eyed bird of prey.

Caught up in the hack-and-slash but

If you'd put that gun away

For time enough to look me in the eyes, you’d find

As long as you let my heart beat it beats for you and only you…..

But I’m just a creature feature in your killing spree,

Even though I’m made for you and you were made for me!!

(Disjointed laughter, howling)

Are you ever gonna give up the long-game?

Haunting my periphery in orbital routine;

It’s a rush, it’s a drag, it’s a bloodstain---

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