elastic eyes draw back my disguise under purple lights the lies fade from the tv screen shes calling me then the phone rings and my ears sing along with every miscarried dream we sleep so deep...

we sleep so deep as to appear defeated we rest so long that our hearts have atrophied we lie so well that youd almost believe...love could never be killed...love never will...we lie so still...

plastic minds return thoughts in undefined packages with foreign retrurn addresses remember the red dress shes the one that left not me i just ran out of breath and hands to feel my chest and check...[yes, its stopped beating once again]...remember those stars on the sidewalk reflected on the cars the murals the infamous the celebrities and the unimportant outnumbered by the stars they always fell to our front yards begging to paint the reflections of their names on a rundown heart...

i just feel stronger
i just feel hardened
by the grave i lay in
lost without my breath
to scream and yell
let me out
let me out

i just feel alone
gilded and stoned
beaten and broke
now youre eating from my hands and i know

youre going to choke

on the debris of my insanity rummaging through an empty chest she found the locket with nothing in it and looked at the picture that didnt exist and told me...

it reminds me of us
it reminds her of us
and shes right
and she writes
hands shaking as the serum fades

i love[d] you..
and i never expected it to come to this...



hes so lonely in his own dreams, he refuses to sleep
refuses to face fantasy
even in this dystopian reality

someone remembers his name...
someone feels the same...
someone somewhere is dying

dying to say

that were all dying
to sleep today away...