Say the Lines
Go through Motions
Surrender or Slay
Take up the Mantle
Write your Credo
Ink your Heart and Skin
Dye your Hair
Change your Face
with Knives and Books
Live for Tomorrow
Suffer for Today
Speak The Truth
Live the Lie
that Money can Buy
in Empty Drams and Dreams
Walk with Stars in your Hands
Tread over the Clover Carefully
And Run fast, Run faster into the River
Meet the Monster in the Mouth
with Scales Balancing and Sparkling Spores
Stand Up
Grow Some Gills
Get Some Balls
But What of Feathers
Poultry, Prey or Predator
One, Two, Three
Father, Son and The Holy Ghost
Which is Believed, Blessed or Cursed
He or I or the Family History
That Speaks in Spikes and Stories
Thorned in Velvets and Marijuana Flumes
Excuses in Repition
that Don't Repeat but Prick and Pin Problem
on My Lapel like a Mottled Flower
That doesn't Die but Reconfigurates
Into a Brutal New Infirmy
Which doesn't Rape or Ravage
Only Callus's the Hands and Toughens the Heart
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