Stardust

Your smile was violet

Teeth white as night

Blinding speed at the thought

Of grey sideways oceans

Dancing with you

Under art deco skies

While the band plays

Silently to your

Heart

Jesus

remember when i was young?

i talked to you about all the things

that scared me and how much i loved you

and how thunder was you bowling

and the wind was your sweet breath.

remember how i wrote your name on my locker,

how i sang to the stars and sighed

your name in sleepless wonder?

remember how i went to jail

and called your name in hatred.

all the times i killed your disciples

and poisoned your fishes

acid tabs in your blood and poison in your body.

remember how I ached for someone to talk to

when the park closed and all the squirrels went to sleep

for eternity?

jesus, remember the shirt you borrowed from me, well, i want

it back.

Secrets

I never got to say goodbye

You left so quickly

Without warning

I heard you went peacefully

Although that's not much

Consolation when we all 

Wish you hadn't gone at all

I regret so many things 

Now that you're dead

Especially how you'll never

Know that i used to cheat

At cribbage

Mr. Nice Guy

Did you really expect me to work at the factory?
The heat of liquid metal, oiling my skin black as your heart
Did you expect me to drink with your factory friends
Dark bars and secrets that would chill my blood
Oh yes, I know you factory dad
Factory hands are most efficient when there's work to be done
You were hard all the way, inside and out
Even your tears burned hot, and such passion I only believed to exist
In movie houses where monsters and childeaters lived
Factory man.  scary man.  so many visions, no rest
Passing the houses like Frankenstein's creature, each step coming closer
Did you really expect me to stay silent?
Locked in your factory where you manufacture fear
What dreams you make, what joy you have deprived me
Your voice...soft...oh please, let it be soft
Clumsy by nature, love the ones...
Free me father
Factory son
Factory family
We work so hard to protect our cruel lies.

The Sweater

I suppose it was your sweater

Torn at the elbow green as envy

Even a room full of people couldn't

Disturb my view

Green sweater 

Please when I see you

Wear the green sweater

All the boys behind the house rate you

They "know" you

I want to scream 

Tell you that your green sweater 

Can protect you from playing room tag

Sweater on and sweater off

Green,green,green,green,green,green

It's green don't you understand

When darkness comes you don't have to hide in the shadows

Because I love the subtle things about you

And I still worry and I still cry

Cause search parties haven't found you since 

The sweater came home alone