Paint Me as a Dead Soul

Paint me as a dead soul

With a halo of black joy

Medusa in a mirror

Etched out in acid

The flesh, the image, the reflection

One who dwells in scarlet darkness

Like animals in palaces

Drawing blood

The flesh, the image, the reflection

Let's complete the illusion

Paint me as you see me

From memory or history

In a fever or a frenzy

Paint your lucid dreams and visions

In a chamber of nightmares

In a temple of locusts

So violent, vile and vivid

May the colours make you fearful

Blind and hypnotizing

In our subterranean heaven

Paint my cunt with dragonflies

My eyes as bright as diamonds

My heart open like an ulcer

Or a sacred crimson rose

Bathed in blood

Or drowning in my bed

With the fragrance from the flowers

In the gardens of the dead

Paint ghostly foxes, cats and camels

A red dog and a black dog

Paint a putrid sunset

In verdigris and violet

Ochre, amber, mauve

Four monks

Carrying a goat

Over the snows

To nowhere

And paint the shades

That come with evening

Peacock angels

Dream of leaving

Paint me as you see me

Paint me as I see me

Paint me as a dead soul