By ZoE
Date: 27 August 2000
Down Off This Down
Johnny- I am so scared
I need instruction
to breathe
I am reminded of you-
translucent
spiders hiss
and claw at the walls
I am so scraed to go home
I'd rather stay planted on this set
of traintracks
shadows setting a feeling of
forgetting
all responsibility
Johnny- I forgot
your zipcode
and mine too
I'm stuck in the metamorphasis
of loving you
I play your records
songs that slice me open
and beg for delicate stitching
I believe that I have purified myself
I don't want to be anything
but
Virgin
for you
because I need to cry in the arms of a
tumbling silent lover like you
who can recite my favorite lyrics
break this frightening chain
off my feets
daddy knows all about them sugarcane
and tobacco wet from the rain
but you johnny are kept
quiet
like my prize for not opening my mouth
(is this insane?)
wait for a kiss from you
because I may not be the blonde girl
with a set of matching keys to your house
your heart
your maze of intricacies
but I can taste you
sweet and brand new
from a mile away
bringing me down
off this down
in my life
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