To Achieve

Be dainty Be pretty Be silent Be Sodom Pendulum in this embrace A barbed wire foothold on the wall And slowly, slowly moving upward Upward, heaving heavenward as a mere insect Crawling into deeper reaching chasms Silent moon and the ivory cage which smothers it The paint-on smile and the wipe-off grin With all the care and attention of a blitzed Brittanic blue We are dressed dainty, pretty, silent, Sodom Folding to the wastelands as the moon capsizes the tides To achieve further You must retreat farther Stay silent and do not think When photographs exist for only half a year I barely know you at all, I can count on my hand Exactly everything I am sure off and even then I may have remainders As you have remainders and she has remainders and closets Full to bursting like suicidal veins For the art of the lie To achieve.