Stamen #1

I Don't Want To Know It's Medicine
Or Make Themed Pre-drinks
And Dress Up Like A Fag
Who Ends Up Tasting Beer Breath
And Aches Stomachs.

"Plastic Mask...
A Manter?... A Maneater
With Antlers...
Anther?
When Is Halloween?"

Smelling Like A Rubber Holiday,
There's Even Lipped Coins Lying In Toilet Water
Wishing A Nose To Spite.
He Ran Out Of Air Tonguing It
And I Forced Myself To Get Sick Outside The Club.

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Hive

I Am Dribbling Out My Mouth
Legs First
Like A Centipede Or Something

Telling People They've Cancer
Tasting It
When They Know They Don't

Making Them Insects Again
Only Red
And Human On The Inside

We Ain't Good At Goodbyes
Or Welcomes
But We Sometimes Talk In Between

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Time Article 74'

I Know Not Everyone Gets A Funeral
Some Just Get Mentioned At Wedding Afters

As If They Are Leaving For Vietnam
Like That G.I. Who Fucked My Mother While I Slept In The Room

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The Townspeople

The First Of The Rolling Blackouts
Rises Floral Print Napkins To Mouths
And The Dog Steps In Its Own Shit

They've Clotted Rivers In The Pre-Dawn Dark
And In Hunger, Swallowed The Sun
So Guess Where It Rises

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Gerry

The Other Would Recoil
And That Almost Makes It Ok That It's Now Gone From The Passager Seat
The New One Doesn't Do That.

One Hand On The Wheel And The Dog Warden Is Called Tom
And Tom Lied
I'm Calling This Bitch Tom Even If The Guy At The Puppy Farm Said Not To.

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