Under the Yum Yum Tree

Under the numb of the yum yum tree
Under the glum of my plumbless eye
Between the branches of life and death
Under the limbs of a plumbless sky

Under the broken branches of hope
Under the branch makers watchful eye
Between the gasp of first and last breath
Under my numbness, I pray to die

Under beguile of my maiden fair
Under a smile, thought I knew so well
Between eaves of trees, she bleeds, deceives
Under plumbless eye, she seeds my hell

Under the glow of a plumbless moon
Under my glum that I keep inside 
Between numb dead eyes, a lead-filled prize
Under glum plumbless, I open wide
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