Lapse - Bill Callahan

All of those days

Stretched out in a line

Vertebrae spools of my spine

I cry (why do you cry?) I remember

I smile (why do you smile?) I remember

All of those moods

Entangled and twined

What was once skin become rind

I speak (why do you speak?) I remember

I scream (why do you scream?) I remember

All of those lies

Compounded through time

Cortical clues to my crime

I fall (how do you fall?) I remember

I fly (how do you fly?) I remember

All of those skies

I’ll never find

Circuits short out in my mind

I know (what do you know?) I remember