1.
Burn bright, campfire
Burn bright o star
These people in your warmth
Sustained so. sustained all
Near and far are well important.
And you are a brave, I say.
Through entropy, every
Influence you had to give you gave
Your all, an untouchable neuroenergetic balance
You lost, and I watched as
Your mind dried in a moment
And your saline shock reset switch
An enclosed system is opened
Suddenly, utterly, rent wide,
& then, black blank eyes as
I'm unrecognized.
"Oh he did fall suddenly
And now is basic somehow
His song cut out
In a brief sad howl,
His eyes did static and reset
As I looked on breathless"
Or so I said and
Did maintain.
And he slow regained
Only a shadowed Grove
Of maple and elm from a root within
His former forest and
Regained it brave and man: damned
If he didn't just hold his scrap
Of self that's left up
High and wide and let
The water collect
On it
And feed slowly once more
His soul
For his self now
As he was
once for
Us all
2.
Oh no! sing a toast to the rubber-legged: toast now the getaway car which sinks in eternity
And forever, for that runner was a clever man afore those few wild stumbled moments we witnessed.
Clever, before his rubber leg was installed, before his lunge at the car, installed by the hand of the law and I who saw only and even in such brevity of touch he says loud how in inspired moments far before he pushed all of us forward, he, he pushed paperwork toward an invention essential to some, but lost his momentum and belief, his lover and his keys, and several other things, he severed them, and lost these things by severance and wandered lost, now without information, now exclusively able to run through the results and lo! he is here, delayed by me for one instant only, my fault, he falls, woe is he so, all: grant him a moment of reprieve, let him watch a getaway car sink in the bog, blurry, only twenty two steps off, he doesn't understand, his femoral artery. Grant him reprieve, now, for a moment and watch him with me, with love, the getaway car sinks under the black sand, its movements defy him and he doesn't understand, but as we still stand, we still can
3.
Obey my teeth, they chatter
A Frankenstein's monster its
Verbal with click semaphore.
Undertoned is Morse code as
My lips do breathy pops also
I want to speak to you