Blossom - Kublai Khan TX

Plastic flowers

On a cold level splay

Cigarettes lay sizzling

In your

Tarred ash tray

46 and always sick

My hopes

They were all gone

Vacuum lips and every bit of smoke

Is withdrawn

Get up

A rush of fire burns

I’m in its light

Choked up or chained down

And I burned with it

And I burned with you

Every time you coughed

I feared the very worst

Thinking you ate smoke

To cure your belly’s thirst

Like loose change in a coffee can

Your throat it would burst

And I wanted better for you

Strangled your days were cursed

Charred lungs

And breath that smoldered

I just couldn’t see it

Till I got older

You spoke through crackles

And you walked as if you were shackled

Slowly but surely

It got you too

And I just watched

I did nothing

Fuck