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There she goes, my lover

With boots to fit the devil’s hooves

And dirt to suck beneath her shoes

I thought maybe I should

Maybe I should taste it



She reminds me of a king’s daughter, a lioness



And I am the wells of disappointment

That rotten whale that kissed the shores

I am all that was misgiven

A coming back

A crawl on all fourth



I caress this concrete venous

Yet she gives me nothing back

Her sympathy will scratch my skin

Her signature – my heart’s cement

How could it leave me?

When did it cross the stepping stone?

So I wished I was the sidewalks of berlin

Where all these women, tall and thin

Walk every day

In the lanes

Of love

I swear to god the girl was blind

But had these most insightful eyes

They were drifting apart from me

And all the world was hidden from our sight

Every time you leave me ends with blood on my coat

A detective’s taking notes

I am the crime scene you’re the chalk

Yes you are everything, that I will never know

A siren’s shining by the sirens glow

Shivering spines

Through supper time

Slowly I’ve become the earth

Bohemian behemoth

You can’t be more wrong

All evil is mine

The deviant poet

And as others before me

I am being drawn

To the filth of the city

The last plane of hell

And I can’t see a devil

But I think I saw god

Hidden in an ally’s can

Patiently waiting

To be born

Again

How could it leave me?

When did it cross the stepping stone?

Neighbors said goodbye

But I’ve seen nothing in their eyes

The kind of nothing I have longed for

Envious, I said farewell