Call To Dive - Subtle

The lids on Streetlights peel back to reveal row upon row of bulging black bird

eye

All gorged out toward you like exotic zoo snakes heaped up

on fiberglass rocks, fat with farmed rats coaxed down their throat

below them in their brights,

tilt finished arrows beached up on thin tin signs.

and where its corrugated stem injects into cement

there is a deep fried breastbone,

popping hard half ate on a rich red curb

All at once

The next morning everything begins again

Over a walk past a few balloons tied to a lovesick car-salesman's wrist.

You press on

A soft bicycle wheel chained up

behind a savage looking pair of women’s dress shoes,

abandoned to the left of a tire tread pressed dead pigeon

lain askew in more rich rose colored gutter

There there

Temperature taking your skin

Tinged city wind catching air on your pleasantly imperfect and c-section shaped

skull

For once forget your headed to the mailbox

to drop more finished bills down to its gut

Even though for all you know that’s about as far as those things ever go

As sad as it is so, (x2)

Kids today will never wear the perfect cape of clean air

Nor one true brand new brazier of sheer luck

or does someone out there, does someone out there still expect that

the way a moth gives freely of itself unto the bulb

they will not learn their lesson from a teachers copy

of a blackened lung, hung in the classroom, on the coat rack

Or left dripping in the closet during math minutes passing

nor from a nice new globe made of gold, cast in the shape of a half eaten apple

Not until

The sun is on a stick

The moon hung on a hook

Desperate times call for step by step schematics of the human dive (x6)

Fool.

Not

Gum up bubble flavored up sitting on a more popular mechanics of a fifty foot

flesh.

Not

Watch a thieving wallet going over the counter of botox.

With your arms a great

cops.

Not

Not god.

Not done.

So booking the atomic clock.

Not sea loud to clear.

Over a dozen boxed cars.

Keys to the city

You’re rap rock.

Not blood.

Not gold bonded.

Not

You serious precarious, but with no snots

And a sunset interjects

Donating the kind of red you’d only see in stores

Affording yourself a bit more polarity, some singular mood polarity

And if you could, you’d have a close friend

drive you off into the sinking pinks