before your body goes

One, two Taking time to be A small person Still the same boy, bent up The ocean's my chorus Our love lays before us I'm twisted not useless So I gotta face the page Instead of cracked ribs on the pavement This retaliation's ignorant at best And it's no wonder why I can't see The poetry in anything I'm a vessel for my own uncertainty Ugliness swallows Shrieks like a crow While beauty fades out Of the bay window Goddamn, your ego's gotta die A thousand times Before your body goes, yeah Before your body goes