First on the block, imagine a battlefield

Place all your soldiers, your worthy, your throwaways

Wrap them in silver, burn them alive

Assure them it’ll be ok soon

Second at bat, kill all your enemies

Shove a sword in any dragon that told you you couldn’t take the burden

The sun on the blade, the twilight of victory

Sew a boat together and let her carry you home

Finish the web, third it’s a panoply

Been locked in the wardrobe with a victrola scratching

The world ending trumpet of a toilet lid slamming

A tooth on an eggshell, maybe something new hatching

I’ll burn down your house if it means that i’ll kill the termites

I’ll burn down your house if it means that i’ll get you out

An inkwell could save us, or it could be our ending

An octagon halo above an elemental blaze

Seventeen dollars in a sun hardened wallet

And all the blood that carried you tepid in your veins

With every stroke you told me that i could be authentic

Or a knife in a stump, or a fish without scales

A stymied affection or a gushing watercolor

Yet as long as it breathes, there is love in the pail

I knew you the best i could, i knew you thematically

You were invincible! i shat my overalls

A wasp in an apple and the fathoms i pine for

A fear can be conquered but a grief’s a hollow call

I’ll burn down my house if it means that i’ll kill the termites

I’d burn down my house if it meant that i’d get you out

All palaces are not temporary palaces

Regardless of what survives

The mantra is simple

I followed the steps that you laid out so lovingly

But the book’s pretty wrecked at this point

There’s pages i’ve ripped out that i’ll never get back

And other memories that i won’t anoint

This sensation of closing a hardcover novel

A hardened catalyst of bird nests and heart

But still, frequent glimpses of what’s been inherited

The same old damn truth of true solace in art

I’ll burn down your house if it means that i’ll kill the termites

I’ll burn down your house if it means that i’ll get you out

All palaces are not temporary palaces

Regardless of what survives

The mantra is simple

Stop fires save lives