perspiration and a mouth full of 9 volts

can be out too long
in an attempt to not let the game
get the best of you
but that candle has wicks on both sides
and in the middle
you always stink of it
like cat piss on clean laundry
doesn't wash off

inside of thumb blackened
and finally the charcoal faded well

even numbers run east and west
the six string can always be sanded down again
still can't throw water
back at the sky alone though
or stay here any longer
while you refuse to cut down your dead
that hang from trees by their only good leg

there are sketches of
in my favorite saloon

was dragged once
out of a perfectly good brothel
for this
a sequence of syntax
that tastes like the inside
of my favorite monster masks
worn only to disguise as another suitor