i cry mercury so it paints my cheeks

such that my face holds rivers of stars

'n' i look like a silver galaxy of spirals

trapped in a low bottle of champagne

these lads here are perfect alchemists

hiding in shaded, evolutionary alleys

making alloys out of drugs and liquids

destroying the gold in me, messin' up

bottle caps clink a melody on the floor

these pavements hum a lonely silence

so i throw away the cordage of my will

and pour a paradise down my throat

i'm high enough to be clinically insane

so i tip over this string of hazy dreams

to see faces in the rain, to dance alone

because who needs a partner in pain?

this is all the benevolence of a syringe

an altruism so expensive, it eats away

all of my sweaty, crumpled dollar bills

ah what a waste for just a little binge!

i hear folks shouting at me in the streets

crooks in dingy alleys robbin' you away,

stealin' away the sweat of your parents,

oh selling you meagre bliss for fortunes

this is all unfathomable malapropisms

i can't understand, what mondegreens

startin' to think i can't do this no more

'cause a drowsy bullet drains my brain

so i lie on the cold floor of a pavement

in a narrow alley, all done and dusted,

'n' look at the poetry scribbled on a sky

all purple with the hue of my fantasies

it's all a dream painted over the passage

between cruel reality 'n' sweet euphoria

so don't you ask me to smile right now

because i can barely blink, barely blink

Author's Note