Residue

Residue Wrapped in cellophane and ribbon mocking burned down evergreens Screaming at the shadowed walls as nightmares spurn your toxic dreams Lurking near the bottles filled with endless empty molten fears Dampening the diapers as a mother cries her countless tears Broken weave of tattered sleeve behind the darkness to believe That midnight forms what we conceive in moments cast to only grieve We’ll go dancing nightly in the attic while the moon is rising in the sky If I’m too drunk tell me, I’m so scared your little head will come off in my hands What the heck did you expect for just a speck, a tiny fleck Now hit the deck you wretched wreck as long ago we did suspect Counting money residue on blackened smoldered fingernails As billion dollar babies sing in toothless whining rancid wails Toddlers of the devil’s creed wear shiny plastic floating eyes Now staring at you while you sleep these monsters gather in disguise This poem was inspired by one of my favorite songs, Alice Cooper’s “Billion Dollar Babies” The italicized lines are lyrics from that song. Here is a link to the song: https://youtu.be/6sD8sO0B97I And in case you didn’t know, the other voice you’ll hear singing on the song is Donovan (Mellow Yellow)