Ashen Aqualung

Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly Fraying my nerves raw with oxidized guitar strings. my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage onto clay vinyl grooves s p i n n i n g endless nights of suffocation. a midnight jazz wail lacerates the void of your absence. notes gnaw through bone marrow ravenous maggots in the corpse of our love. Chords violently crash splintering my fractured vertebrae a car wreck in slow motion. plucking the frayed synapses of my misfiring modal limbic brain. feel the searing electric distortion static fuzz of madness surge through morrow's marrow my moanin' a primal scream at the Eve of Destruction trapped in a skipping groove of creation shattering guitars and blasting kneecaps in an empty cathedral of resounding sound Our touch a violent crescendo of needles and poisoned honey pain swollen sweet as a mother's milk laced with a junkie's fix on a stillborn birthday morn each note a razor-sharp reflection etched in stretch-marked scar tissue of the agony that throbs within this moog menagerie of fractured femininity set Between the sets of our shattered chords a single note lingers- soft almost tender- like a child's last breath before the final f i n a l e Silence crawls a venomous asp a deafening absence louder than stacked amps of patriarchy reverberating in the hollow spaces between drumming heartbeats where your persecuting promises used to nest and breed I am the discarded B-side of the one-hit wonder rising from dumpster-filled lungs of domesticity reborn in the Electric Avenue of my own making singing Billie's bruises Muddy's floods and Johnson's hellhounds to the ghosts of futures stillborn in this Rhapsody of beautiful destruction Moon-faced and sickle-smiled I conduct this orchestrated Savage band of ruin my voiceless voice a lightning rod splitting the sky of expectations as I agonizingly birth myself anew in the RCA Victor Rhapsody of Blue of Beautiful reconstruction P e r h a p s… a new refrain