Memorial

harmony in the cold, cold crowd
the loudest scoundrel whines and howls
our dearest accomplices accomplished
all that they could, and would
you care to know that you've got no
reason to be scared? no treason!
despair only slows your digestion
and to answer your question:
they left you behind to leave me alone
between a snake dance, who'd sit
on this throne?

we've casted too many magic tricks
for anything to ever be nothing
why frown when you sit atop
the most beautiful piece of my heart?
the prince is only sleeping.

Thanksgiving

sure, blood keeps you warm
an alternative to grapevines
red on my teeth
and your half-hearted heart attacks
splattered upon my foolish gaze

twisted royalty behind the curtain
an arsonists' loyalty now uncertain
a ship forgone along the docks
its captain squirming as the clock
goes tock and tick, throws a fit, and tickles fickle
ways of sticking to it and sticking it to
his old, ghoulish ways

Cake

step back twice baby, give it a whirl
and these painkillers could ruin a girl!
dance; always dancing, and sinking, and twirling
last chance, a rose and a pearl
for my darling, oh!

i just don't want to stop loving you...

nevermind, won't find a root canal now
blind mice breed lonely inside of the shower
laugh; always laughing, and sassing, and pouting
after this, there won't be doubts
in my mind, and yet

i just don't want to stop loving you!

Suicidal Sex-Fiend

exercise in exorcism
carnal demon's carpentry
stain on the carpet
tree trunk releases
mind, ha ha ha ha ha!
homosexual, homicidal
reverse and rehearse
a hearse on the highway
deliver me my carcass
deliver me my mistress

Complacent Replacement, pt. 2

sometimes a cigarette rolled too tight
goes out, and you renew the fire
i've never been so meticulous
or quite so ridiculous
in making sure
that i inhaled
all of my toxic death
and oh, my elizabeth
it all dwindled when you returned
and now that it's completely burned
the curb is reserved for the butt
of every twisted joke

Complacent Replacement, pt. 1

placate the sunlight;
sing intoxication
so then, when each bullet taken
(forsaking my heartbreak
and repressing your reprieve)
regresses -- only the lonely
autumn leaves
will throw cigarettes at you
and feed you death
come back, elizabeth

venom's temptress
snake dance: sin
a snake that just won't shed its skin

Head Monster

regrettably conscious of falsities
the vein tangibility of monstrous monstrosities
alarming a charming young prince…
without restriction; entangling his diction
doused in his morbid capacity for fiction!

pensive eyes; a vicious heartbeat
incentive? demise! catharsis complete!
ten cents more for an artist to eat
starvation beguiles all your concrete convictions
a trick is too much of a hassle, so which one?
for every white lily on which you may lay
my castle is crumbling every day!

disarm
though you're harmed,
and you're wrung,
and you're rinsed
mistakenly making a knave of your prince
your love letters scribbled
and words minced to pieces
convinced that the vulnerable live to be teased
betrothed to the loathing of owing and paying
unclothed, and so rather than knowing, you're praying