Subtle Body - These Arms Are Snakes

Keep running with this, it’s running through my fingers

Solid connection happening

Ten long years and this crooked smile still bare

Low vibrations shake the base of the ground

Soft monotony pulling me in like womb

So long

A strange cool to get

Strict coil, long face, horse hooves stepping around in the dirt

With morose fatigue I worked my way halfway through the body

'Til I hit the heart

It seeped black tar at the first bit of tooth

Such a long road to get to this point, I thought

With this contaminated

Fluid like dry rot in the gums

The tooth had gone bad

And so had you

They butterflied

The muscles in my back

In order to give me wings

I never asked, I never asked to fly

Locked away in a mahogany case

I always took the strange way

It never seemed strange to me

Strict coil, long face, horse hooves stepping around in the dirt

With morose fatigue I worked my way halfway through the body

'Til I hit the heart

It seeped black tar at the first bit of tooth

Such a long road to get to this point, I thought

How many ways

Could there have been

Or such ways I could have lied to myself

It’s in storms or chords or beats or in time

Strokes of hands in air of homes

Reorder

Redirect

Stop biting

Disinfect cold skin

Implement warm feeling in the neck

The fixture cracks in moments

The foundation like the chin of some relic sculpture

The art turns into dust

You can take the time to cover me in vines

Hide me in the shack behind the house I grew up in till I’m ripe

You want a suitor?

You want a chance to forget?

Well I’m glad we met

I think I’d look nice in your lawn

You can take the time to cover me in vines

Hide me in the shack behind the house I grew up in till I’m ripe