we scripted our nonchalance with axes and wands
like a black swan orchestra
like an ugly duckling seminar
we amplified it
we let the curse become the course
laughed in tandem to scars we used to hide
drew cactus circles around our sunken eyes
we matched our thirst in spades
and we tried on glasses
and we made messes
and we drank blind to scratched records
and in the morning
my friends and i
made the sun sing opposite
only we sang it desperate
and sexy
we penned our harmonies against night’s inferno
we sang oblongs to pastures that need not
for we sang in private
we sang it loud
and in unison
we leaned in
on the walls of the church we were building
and beamed
with cryptic halogen smiles
(2009)