Counting the drowned bees In your honeypot
Should make your finger sweet enough
To push the bitterness you’ve seen
Out of your eyes
But it will only bring
Rats from the four corners
To lick your tears and kiss your lashes
Till they turn black
The loud horror will find a nest
On your face
To hatch the despair brooding
Honey too sweet
Becomes bitter
I can’t trust
My mind to remember the
Color you made me taste
So let me take it
While it’s still hot enough
To scald my tongue
And make a rainbow
For the sun and her friends
To see
And envy
Her butterfly eyes come flapping into mine.
They take flight, just as her cheeks
Rise like the sun creeping from
The nothingness of night
To light up all the
Little flowers in their jackets of color
Her butterfly eyes
With wings shimmering with desire
Slice through the tightening air between us
Like a bullet, graceful but lethal
Till they reach the nervous smile
Painting itself on my face
Like a rainbow clearing a stormy sky
Then for that moment when her
Butterfly eyes land on mine
I forget they are eyes
And wish they were
A raindrop in which we can hide
Till we hit the ground
And it’s all down hill from here
Jack and Jill rode the hurricane
Tugged it mane as it twirled it’s skirt
Forgot that it was just passing by
On the way to somewhere quiet
They lept with it over rolling stones
They left with it like they had hollow bones
No their heads are in the skies
The necks begin to feel cold
The ground is a dot all alone
But the hurricane is on its way
So it’s all downhill from here
The sky cannot carry you
The ground cannot swallow you
So the strange fruit must hang
By the jaws of a snare
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