From This I Will Awake

Howard-Johnson



Constantly protected

But somehow so damaged.

Your lingering aesthetic

And burning eyes deceive.



Lost within some sleeplessness

The americium.

Was central to that sickness

And keeps with your transmission.



This disintegration

Was surely yours to keep.

You're stranded in the Everglades

And wrapped within a sheet.



Extend into the slough.

I'll watch you while you sleep.

Preserving your condition,

Bound by mercury.



This disintegration

Was surely yours to keep.

You're stranded in the Everglades

And wrapped within a sheet.



all the criminals, just outside the door

disguised with hatchets, and secrets galore

with their faces scowling at the amber light within

in the hallway closet, i was trembling

after 40 hours, I was wandering

held hostage through, the august days I burned

in the center closet I was festering

and 6 weeks later, to prison they returned

and it's been 30 years, since we did come this way

and the time has come, for you to serve your pay.