Kill your double.

Written January 2024

Notes: N/A

IT'S ABOUT ANIMALS AND RAIN.
IT'S ABOUT CHASING YOUR TAIL INTO ITS BURROW.
IT'S ABOUT HUNGER.
IT'S ABOUT STARVING.
IT'S ABOUT BLOOD AND TEETH.
THE BACKSEAT OF THE CAR IS A PADDED TRAIL,
DOGS WRESTLE IN THE DIRT.
A SPRAY,
MUD AND SWEAT,
GRAIN,
MY EYES.
WE HOWL, WE ARE PARALYZED.
WE ARE SO
SO
SCARED.
IT'S ABOUT BEING NORMAL.
IT'S ABOUT DEER WITH DAISYTAILS.
IT'S ABOUT STICKING MY FINGERS IN YOUR MOUTH AND PRYING YOUR JAW OPEN.
IT'S ABOUT ME,
GNAWING ON YOUR TEETH.
IT'S ABOUT VOMITING WET SAND.
WE ROLL ON THE HIGHWAY,
YOU AND ME
AND ME AND YOU.
ONE IN THE SAME.
I AM IN MY OWN BACKSEAT,
STICKING MY FINGERS DOWN MY THROAT.
STICKING MY FINGERS DOWN YOUR THROAT.
YOU BITE ME AND WE FEEL IT.
WE ARE DOGS.
WE ARE SO HUNGRY.
IT'S ABOUT THE MEAT THAT'S SEWN AROUND YOUR BONES.
THE DOWNPOUR THAT SCARES US.
LIKE A LIGHT,
OUT IN THE ASHES,
WE HOLD OUR TAILS
BETWEEN
OUR TEETH.
CRAWLING BACK INTO THE SAME EARTH.
THUNDER
COLOR
BIRDSONG
DRUNKEN
MEMORY.
WE KNOW VIOLENCE AS MUCH AS WE KNOW FEAR.
WE KNOW FEAR AS MUCH AS WE KNOW HIDING.
IT'S ABOUT HEAVY FUR.
IT'S ABOUT SCREAMING.
IT'S ABOUT GREY SKIES.
IT'S ABOUT SMOKE SIGNALS.
IT'S ABOUT TEARING OURSELVES APART TO PASS THE TIME