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    Three Sisters of Mercy

    Walter Lucken IV

    September 6, 2021

     

     

    Hot garage

    In the hot garage I suck down my last squares
    learnin how to miss you
    imon do it anyway im tryna do it right

    when u come back can we walk
    magic circles over the river til we get tired?
    make up for the time we missed?

    I got some shit on me doesn’t feel as heavy
    when you’re always in my hair
    thought you might be first I lay it on
    scared somehow I can carry it now

    I know you aint made a glass baby
    I know you won’t break
    I know my heart’s beatin in the pocket
    when your ear’s up against my chest
    to tell me if something don’t sound right
    please come back and listen
    please come back I’ll tell you
    what was wrong the whole time I promise

    Til then ima sit here
    heavy in the hot garage with my last squares

     

     

    it means somethin

    my hands along her
    a sudden warning do not go any further
    I, she explained, had touched a serpent’s
    nest of a supernova of a black hole of a
    quick sand of a chasm of a gash of a
    reflective pool in which, I, she explained
    would lose my identity

    well babe, that’s why I’m here after all
    my name and its corresponding face is
    a transitional house which the more
    comfortable I become in it the closer
    I am to the door, so can I live in your box?

    if I lose my ten digit code in the snake pit
    then I cannot die by virtue of not being born
    so you see darling it’s on the other end of the
    limit experience that we can be a liquid encased
    in a magic bullet expanding and contracting
    gas taking the shape of broad and multifarious
    containers, I wanna end because I don’t wanna be
    not in a cry for help way though
    more like the inside of my shell is truly
    the outside of my shell and it’s ok on the
    other side of my coming apart

    ready when u are
    til then I take my hand away

     

     

    cameras

    christmas money we cut it with midol
    call back to hollywood
    florida tell em textbooks high this term
    I need those retro 12s
    spent that passive income on pelle leathers
    waste products they need
    me a fuck of a lot more than you
    shoot it in your vein trick sniff it up your nose
    dope man slammin them cadillac doze (rich boy)
    camera camera I look
    I stare they yell cut behind the camera

    how many of you must I kiss in your casket
    So as not to curse your memory
    how many of you must I dream to
    the next phase because our road together is done
    how many of you must I lie awake
    waiting for you to die so I can love your ghost

    he had a lot of pain I hope he figured
    it out but while he was here I kept my distance
    plotting coordinates to another world you can
    live the life you were meant to live without me
    I’ll send you the directions cause this world is a tight space
    waking up shivers and blood cold in my intestines
    pressed nails on my chest shuddering bear what’s the matter

    I won’t tell her what I saw in my dream because I know you’re behind the camera camera waiting to step
    into the room this world is a tight space

     

     

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