Around the Edges

In another life
I'll sail the jello ocean tides
Of normal walks and flatline talks
I'll watch the paper boats go by
When the time is right
We'll burn our cash in paper bags
And I'll forget just why I let
You eat my chips now I've been had

If I cannot sleep
I'll smoke all night on my back porch
Just throwing crumbs at scorpions
That walk across the desert floor
You say that you breathe
Rock heavy water in and out
I drown when I begin to try
And pull the snakes out of your mouth

When disaster came
He crashed the door to splinters
In his pickup truck now how the fuck
Will you and I get through the winter
How far will you crawl
To leave where you were going to
I'm in the dirt without a skirt
My spitshine self is showing now

So cut my love around the edges
Leave the crust on trim the hedges
I'm alive and free without a smudge
Dig your arm into my leeches
Pull my finger eat your peaches
Take a break and smoke I'll be around
I won't go home
Not all alone

At the edge of earth
I spit into a fountain
But my garbage can is half a man
To sit on flattened mountains
When I mimic you
You tell me that I'm growing
And I'd jump to skate a figure eight
But what of me is showing then

Oh I forgot about the trouble
Right there with the freedom
And abandon when you build a paper house
I smile when I feel the whip
The coffee buzz the endless trip
What you told be about it sounds the same
Just different sounds
And different names