sawdust & diamonds

from the top of the flight of the wide white stairs

through the rest of my life

do you wait for me there?

there's a bell in my ears

there's a wide white roar

drop a bell down the stairs

hear it fall forever more

hear it fall forever more

drop a bell off of the dock

blot it out in the sea

drowning mute as a rock

and sounding mutiny

there's a light in the wings hits this system of strings from the side while they swing

see the wires

the wires

the wires

and the articulation in our elbows and knees makes us buckle and we couple in endless increase as the audience admires

and the little white dove made with love

made with love made with glue and a glove and some pliers

swings a low sickle arc from its perch in the dark

settle down

settle down my desire

and the moment i slept

i was swept up in a terrible tremor

though no longer bereft

how i shook and i couldn't remember

and then the furthermost shake

drove a murdering stake in and cleft me right down through my center

and i shouldn't say so but i know that it was then or never

push me back into a tree

bind my buttons with salt

and fill my long ears with bees

braying

please