Melody Hums
This is fabricated evidence of love
Forged reports of a representative that cares
We are stripped of our skins
Chernobyl lingers in the backdrop
Stretches his mutated ligaments to reach us
Barely a millimeter apart
They're already larger than life and yet
they still walk on stilts
The men in black suits waving identification
like batons
Don't tell them a damned thing
He waits alone in the water
for blood; for prey;
for any sign of life
We betray ourselves to him
"Why the face so long"
"What could go so wrong"
I'll tell you what,
it may take 43 muscles
but who even honestly frowns
when they're sad these days
In the throngs of despair
the flight reaction catches
and releases
Everything spreads like disease
Cakes in cracks and crevices in the walls of the well
Nobody's leaving
whether there's a desire to or not
This is fabricated evidence of love
Copyright © Val Murah | Year Posted 2010
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