comes natural as breathing

[inhale]

it only hurts the first time.
after that, darling, it comes
natural as b r e a t h i n g.
and yes, i really did cry,
that first time, because
not every one can be as strong
as a marionette
with spider silk for
strings.         

[exhale]

&we're both just accidents
waiting to happen, one
mis-step, and our 8-ft-north-of-insanity
tin can kingdom will come
smashing _down, making up for
the lack of color that was
here in the first place.

[swallow hard]

would you offer up your
throat to the man with
the candy-coated insults, who
blows out the stars one-by-one, just
to hear the children w e e p?
i think i might, but only because
i'd rather a dead-me, than a
dead-you.
                                                                   
[light shudder]

flightless bird, don't you cry,
cause daddy's gonna build you
a brand new pair of paper
wings, so you can fly all the w a y
to boston, where no-one knows
your name, blatent lies that
become oh-so-convincing, and
the eiffel tower becomes
just one more reanimated corpse
to be fallen for.     
                  
[pass out]

we're all bad people,
and i'm perfectly happy
with it staying that way.
he'll pull the trigger, because thats the
promise he couldn't afford to keep,
and she'll call him trigger-happy, and
wonder whether or not he was
lying when he called her
beautiful.

[ repeat]