Garrotte Lyrics

Garrotte

god is missing
two fingers
and won't say
how it happened

smoke
curls above like the hair of
the most beautiful ghost i've never
seen
smell paint burning, dead fish warming
misfiring my
wiring

garrotte copper
wire wrapped tight
bent in two
in
pain

a fly carves lines around her a
slot car spinning out of
control
in arabic polygonal circuits
with the trigger down

today
is another day that i'll forget
walk around in a daze again
drinking from
the neck of the wolf
and dream twitching of safety

i awake
when
the earth heaves
crudely nailed
in assent

and she brings me the
things i need
a stack of books up to the sky
walks blinking blind into
the dark
demanding to medicate me