Animals - Gravenhurst

They descend upon the city like flies

Spraying their eggs into a dead dog’s eyes

It’s England on a Saturday night

I wish I could be like them and I try

But I find it more rewarding to walk along the river

Picturing my body discarded in the water

I wonder who will do it and I wonder what they’re doing right now

They opened up the sewers tonight

Animals caged in their appetites

Let loose upon the passer-by

And people like me are just parasites

Take me to the river

I want to feel the water

Closing in and helpless as you’re pushing my head under

I wonder if you’ll do it and I wonder what you’re doing right now

At four am you’re lying right there

With urine and wine dried in your hair

You mean something to someone somewhere

But now half alive, to drunk to care

I take you to the river

I want to show you something

I’m making a map from all the flowers I’m collecting

I wonder if I’ll do it and I wonder what I’m doing right now