Checkerboard (1969)
Boquet beauty belle, bitten by the butane
Half-eaten sandwich queen stopped by the suit and cane
Catatonic klepto teen riding her last drop of dopamine
We only wanted what was best,
they took it upon themselves, and the rest was only a test
We picked up the picket signs, but they sent out the shield lines
Coiled the sulfur around my bubbling blossoms
And no matter our putrid paranoia,
no matter our sonic suicide
We won't belong
Walls between,
spoiled scene
King of the shitstains, smeared through the tiles
Never appreciated, and they're all in denial
Caged in our ethereal prisons for being ahead of our times, bringing the future in a world of the senile
So chain my pride, spit in my eye, but you're the one who's crossed to the wrong side
--
Follicle
Carry me through seas of acid rain
Forever yours, forever blinded by sparkling haze
The killer in me the killer in you, delicate hands dancing over my mortal being
And I swore I tripped through stars
Never there to brush my cheek,
never there to drag me out
Skipped to the dimestore, stepped on your flowers
'Cause I reach out, on my sinking ship
Precious glass blanket,
But I brought my warhammer,
no need to fake it
My precious reflection, surely can take it
I always asked for more than I could pay,
i always throw out the bone
Alleyway fuckup,
dragging thru the broken glass, strumming his blues guitar
"Happy birthday to me,
nothing left for me to see,
balloons hither to Death, cake for one, life chewed my candles, foaming at the mouth from a fever
my presents are never
lost life's house key
sittin' alone with tea"
Crowd of two, and only you
Crack whore shithead throwin' a tomato,
drunken clown scratching my groundhog scabs,
bit my cake, bit my mental state
No way, no way
No way to the door, today
paid a buck extra but she's only worth my rusted penny
Said, "Isn't it enough for at least a lumpkin, Jenny"
Just want to unwrap your celestial towel,
like a melting snow revealing a lively grass
Your teeth are a rotted tree of termitepies
and I stroke the covers, bloated blankets of jagged rocks, juiced up venom vipers
Just one kiss, to take out the piss
Tuck me in with hopeful murmurs of lies, and cradle me by starlight
Whip out your stories of yonder, I need you tonight
Collapsing into hollow bodies
I need you by my side, just for one of my plights
Won't you hop on the trunk,
and stroke my greys, because the stars fly as our kite
Just for tonight
Ride by our asylum and turn up the radio one last time,
pass our love poems, looking back
Just one last taste of our grand scheme of dessert
Our cake, now covered in exotic forests of fur
The night's still young
But the time was hung,
though all that's left is our telephone wire of disconnection
Monday, I sent you chocolate
Tuesday I cried in bed,
Wednesday I lit my torches
Thursday, and I can only run away
But today has gone down a different road, my cliffs entering the horizon
Now only the demons sleep next to my side, now only my demons shield the draft
Now only the demons stay up at night, keeping from the bright
But I'm still left to trek my paths alone
Shut the curtain on my pain,
all that's left is my broken frames of you, stained by shame
smudging my life lane
So beautiful, gripping onto death's stair case,
sparkling down the hall in your diamond dress tinged with supremacy
Beautiful as the evening's tornado of confused colors,
no different than the sphere of scorching fire I hold so dear to me
Lent me your hand of grace, march down our sunset one last time
But tonight I'm left hanging in the branches by me, myself, and I
Tonight, only I stumble through the web of life,
me, myself, and I
--
Mindfuck
The porch door open,
Rain is the bridge covering my sanity slippage,
i whisper
Rain is the shattered stone, the clashing tears of the heavens, crashing together and rotting death before our eyes
Rain, strike your harp for me,
another lesson in the game of reviving the dead
Eat my pain away,
though keep the strain in the way
blanket the poison she injects in the grass
and shudder to think
