Wide-Eyed, Legless

Down among the dead
The wide-eyed
and the legless
only half a head
Half a mouth to
laugh from the porthole
With the mold and
faded epitaphs

Will you evermore tie up
my hair with velvet bows?
Will you evermore pull
out the splinters from my toes?
I don't think so

Out in the hornet
rain the swarming
stingers pumping
poison through my veins
Lying on the
star-crossed lover's map
Take the beating
lash, lash for lash

Will we evermore kiss
on the boardwalks fading rail?
In the light of the waves
and the comet's waning tail
I don't think so

No more looking back,
looking back,
looking back
Faded epitaph
No more looking back,
looking back,
looking back
Faded epitaph

No more looking back,
looking back,
looking back
Faded epitaph

No more looking back,
looking back,
looking back
Faded epitaph

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