All my friends are funeral singers

the words avoid my tongue a wish to awake picture-less to lean your fever up against mine trees are growing from our grave roots are tangled in our bones polish girls in ruins tease like chinese...

gather twilight sun warm ears go cold ape-like in prayer still and gone sister no distance and time maybe make love stay mother hold tight milk drunk easy mind butcher and peel the feeling slips clear...

adrift upon the irish sea dreaming all on the desert flats smash the atom with your back teeth grind touch my face with your foot long tone swept away the salt salt line swept away catacombed in...

birds escape from bayonet scars movie skin stealing pills nineteen twenty eight dies so sure the last firefly strikes the last light animal courage won't make you eyes grow wild caged manners fade...

william hovers bear trap teeth tender necks on tender knives cindy prone hung by heat soaks her dress in a long convulsion unremembering nest on winter bears on broken trees that we can last (eat each...

souls steal the rain soak up all the water in the air dawn lays bruised so many nights of light from the moon weight falls darlin' a house of stone filled sing to the wing old rope hands hard heel of...

sip bourbon from her boot honey walls dunes drift inscription on a screaming birth levitation over softening strand alice marble gray a midnight swim a slight return a landscape rise a fractured fall...

a white dress falls miles to the floor like a blood letting promises colorblind and pale let it seethe against the veil between sleep and now a dog, an exorcist and a bride drunk and trading drain...

luis buñuel made bullets and guns at home to pass the time away with careful fingers and eyes getting old smoking the whole time stars in the tide-pools dust in the daylight a great plague passes and...