Amazingly calm, I slip out of a skin

Maybe not by the hair on my chin

But at least by the skin of my teeth

I blow like the wind

I float like a leaf

Under a skeleton grin

I look into the water and -

Once again I release and I slowly descend into darkness

The fungus born on the park bench glows

And tickles your nose

And drips from the drywall

Into your eyeball

Onto your clothes and your pillowcases and your sheets and -

Murmurs to your heart as it beats

"You're an ocean of blood

Swimming out in an ocean of gas."

Dropping in through a hole in the sky

Looking up from the foot of a hydrogen blast

God can't help you now

(Trying hard

God can't help you now

To remember

God can't help you now

What's going on.)

How does it feel to believe, my beloved?

And love it even as you hover above it?

And leave it as something to covet until

By the strength of your will

You give in and

Shove it

In your face?

For a taste

CMB from the depths of space and dust particles in the attic

Are like anything: enveloped in the static

And the thoughts in my head are erratic

If I gave it to you would you break it?

Or keep it safe?

With the key on the dresser as I lay to rest in a body that's naked

Dirty and sacred

Wicked and lovely

Dust of the heavens above me

As the memory of me

Shines

God can't help you now

(Trying hard

God can't help you now

To remember

God can't help you now

What's going on.)

Amazingly well

I slip out of my head

Stepping over a body as dead as the nail sticking out the door

I'm hovering over the floor

I'm hovering over the floor