Kindling for the Master - Stephen Malkmus

In shocking white

Too light for light

More like heaven

Angel food rot

Came from the earth

Inside the earth

Jag of hurt time

Head revolving

Kindling for the master

I was shot for meat

Left alone with a crow

Got into watercolors and you never saw me again

But I plan to return

And with verbs I’ll attack

I’ll trip, I’ll maim, I’ll leave you with no skin on your back

Kindling for the master

Everybody’s got a heart to sink

I’m the leech who can preach

They call me sinister Joe

I got the sweltering heat

Of summer Ohio

If I’m little erratic

You must give me some space

To let me spin it and out and

Up and through your face

You must learn, or you will burn