You can be the kama, the black light in the bar,
Angel on my left shoulder blade above the scar.
Heels off in the kitchen; phone, dead and in the car.
I feel just fine, I'm just wary of the dark.
Wrapped in your bed just like scraps in your book,
You relayed good and bad days; I quietly shook.
"Kissing, my favorite, did I mention he was tall?"
All this in a backyard in a photo on a wall.
You can be the silence that rips into my head,
A promise-coated drill bit next to me in bed.
I yearn to hate your valence pulling me in like a thread,
But caught; wingless, buzzing, I hate myself instead.
I'll wake up with the sun up and you sitting in my skull
Looking keen, as you Steve McQueen a ball against the hull.
Fret not, I'm a hypocrite under all my purple blood
And it looks like I'll have years to learn to ignore the thud.
You can be the silence that rips into my head,
A promise-coated drill bit next to me in bed.
I yearn to hate your valence pulling me in like a thread,
But caught, wingless, buzzing, I hate myself instead.
Came twice with an arched back in the car park in the rain,
A quart low on hormones, nails clawing into my brain.
I hate when Love and Hate love to manifest the same,
But caught; wingless, buzzing, I embrace your fangs.
credits
released August 31, 2016
written, performed, mixed and mastered by Stephen Marsiano in a bedroom in Los Angeles
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