It's not that we can't win it's that we already lost
it's not that we didn't try it we didn't understand the cost

Sad feeling Sanhedrin insuffalitis insufflation
the artist lives in isolation
ice-hardened nation it pains me to say this hunger pangs
demonstrate the state of our hatred
see the stations of the cross at Macy's
the windowpane reflects the three crucifixes at the mission stained glass
I'm at the head of the class in the back of the bus listening to blunderbuss
play the song on your mind on your playlist

naked shameless our neighbor's blankets kept us alive during hard times like these
den of thieves in the house of my father
all the blood swapped with coconut water
there was a full moon the first night I saw her
I knelt to kiss her her eyes rolled star ward
I'll always miss her

My soul stretches farther infernal bridegroom
I grasp at the garter go go gadget harder
when I was young I dreamt of mingling with martyrs
singing and puking off the starboard side
I'm a blessed mess break your fast in my bed

I don't see time as a line I see it as a wolf that comes in the night
I see its bright eyes reflecting starlight
I see its fangs like yellowing stalactites
I feel its fur on my hands in my lifetime
ream of pages rig Veda marijuana
I'm sighing my sonnets in Ensenada
we all pick our own god eventually
Uber mensch at pebble beach settling sedentary seventeen
severing his head from all extremities

Rack of shadows outlawed allowances
calluses on cowhide cottonwood chalices
dogs like theobromine oh my god
something that has gnawed at me all of my life
our time here is what?
we’re turning hours into towers and we are all underneath flowers
Life is your wife but who wears the trousers

Stupid I'm lupin I'm the third wolf on the hill
I can see you even if you are still
I'm into fainting spells I'm swinging from church bells coming to you
I've never been higher than I am black suit spiderman
I am chimpanzee I am champion I am Martian man Olympian
Across an ocean to escape Christendom
in Vietnam easting bison mastodon triceratops
a pair of crosses

Talks like we do 2 3 Skidoo I'm on a seadoo eating emu in the sun
I am see-through cheeks red like pikachu I've been meaning to see you read you something I wrote for you or some shit i don't know weird like Edgar Allen Poe on morphine
gumshoe watching Ivanhoe
A red diamond in her nose the blinds are closed
We chose this life of repose
wrote prose and poses with a pocket full of roses Otis ready strapped like spaghetti
back ordered a yeti I like to take all-day trips to the Getty
on sunny days my eyes pop like eggs full of confetti
Fiesta este keokepe Giuseppe
just let me like the things you hear yourself saying again and again
birthed from a cherry like both juice and gin