Poem: In the Long Grass

I fell out, out, out of the plain
Falling, I burn crops off the end of the world
In the long grass, clocks tick, wires hum
A dry-stone edifice cartoon roadrunner brick wall

When I think of it, darling
I've been like this for some time
Go see a mother's real woman, child
Don't ask me to explain why I know

But I am a lighter

I've got a fight left in me

It's going to the wire

All I know is the man in the grey suit knows who wins

She'll extinguish my attitude

I wanna cup of coffee and a smoke on the side
Cos I'm no longer the feeling thing

I'll be, be, be a spectre
Someone's got to tame your monsters before they tame you
I'd do it for crackers, weed and a bottle of booze

My house parties all over me
Cheap wine leaks from the weeds
Grown in grit and rain by my front door

There's no kerosene there, and the earth is soft

But I am a lighter

I've got a fight left in me

It's going to the wire

All I know is the man in the grey suit knows who wins

 

She'll extinguish my attitude

I wanna cup of coffee and a smoke on the side

Cos I'm no longer the feeling thing

My fickle limbs make me sway like Patti Smith
Call me ashamed, sometimes just delight and delete me
Call my name in the dark when you need me
Will I ever learn?

When will we ever learn?

Cures roam the streets at nights

Sodium strip light tight skin slick fang fat twitch muscle split blood food life itch

That's the real deal

She knows that it's here, now

She sees the change in the way that I walk

The gate was open, now the gait's closed

But she'll extinguish my attitude

I wanna cup of coffee and a smoke on the side

Cos I'm no longer the feeling thing

But I am a lighter

I've got a fight left in me

It's going to the wire

All I know is the man in the grey suit knows who wins