red tipped
fevered with a caffeine drip
Pistolemy, 
the name from how they'd stolen me 
Chipped-tooth'd
burning sickness on the roof
you call it awake, you call it livin
syrupy-thick revenge
shark fin soup's swimming, forbidden
horroscape of trying to get away
too slow to breathe 
begging " not today, not today"

but assimilation came for you 
blinder bodies underfoot
you know you can't just blame the truth
worn barcode suits 
hell's high waters
and tho you cry 'forsooth, forsooth'
you know this grave aint dug for two

gouged sockets
USR painted better rockets
bolt-hoped journeys
gilded caskets, hospital gurneys
hopeful misfits
writing hard
loving like it's scrawled out on nature's shopping lists

you must be new here
amongst the old captains: the unkillable
it's like a zoo here
incredulous stares at these animals
witness: knifeback myths
you're colored wallflower white 
drinking, dying, burning pith
the way we found you at night

there's one test to remain
there's one test to remain
there's one test to remain:
survive a highway