Wide-Eyed, Legless

Down among the dead

The wide-eyed

and the legless

only half a head

Half a mouth to

laugh from the porthole

With the mold and

faded epitaphs

Will you evermore tie up

my hair with velvet bows?

Will you evermore pull

out the splinters from my toes?

I don't think so

Out in the hornet

rain the swarming

stingers pumping

poison through my veins

Lying on the

star-crossed lover's map

Take the beating

lash, lash for lash

Will we evermore kiss

on the boardwalks fading rail?

In the light of the waves

and the comet's waning tail

I don't think so

No more looking back,

looking back,

looking back

Faded epitaph

No more looking back,

looking back,

looking back

Faded epitaph

No more looking back,

looking back,

looking back

Faded epitaph

No more looking back,

looking back,

looking back

Faded epitaph

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