Three:
This tail is not for telling
Nor are his horns for honking

One:
Victim

Two:
Perpetrator

Three:
Bystander

One:
You’re gonna get cut bitch

Two:
With wits or a dagger

Three:
“Sorry” is a slight of hand

One:
and empty is the chest of man.

Two:
...empty is the chest of man.

One:
slight of hand?

Three:
With wits or a dagger

One:
You’re gonna get cut bitch


(In Unison)
Two:   You worm! Three: You worm!
 One:          O worm,
cavernous worm crawling
through a ribcage brittle
lost and pitied into dust
eat up the vastness
 
Two:
your appetite for nothing
is a here and ready feast



Three:
News break!

Two:
Entertainment!

One:
Noose Broke.

Two: Show me again so I can forget.

One:
Noose Broke.

Two:
I will only
One:
-occupy short term.

Three:
Short term...

Two:
manufactured for forgetting.
 
(In Unison)
One: Show me again so I can forget.
Three: Show me again so I can forget.
Two: Show me again so I can forget.

Two: a distant heaven of spending, smolders
Three: while purgatory bursts with bulimics
One: hanging over a hell of other people


Three:
flames rumble hollow
that which sounds the clearest echo

 
One: I would never violate you

Two:   Sayeth he in a silent home
 
Three: Show me again so I can forget.

One: I would never violate you

Two: and I said...
 
One: (silence)
 
Two: and I  said...
 
One: (silence)
 
Two: and I said...
 
One: at least they're spirits
 
Two: and I said...
 
One: you're bored with cunt
 
Two: to which you smiled
 
One: and I said
 
Two: I meant offence
 
One: and I said...

 
Two: the two reposed theirself on the living
room couch.

One: the perpetrator returned to room and
settled himself

Three:  next to the victim on the living room
couch

One:
they argue

Two:
they yell themselves dead black and blue

Three:
finally Assault,  Offense.
While victim,

Two: ...Retreats to a basement a little less herself

Three:
the perpetrator,

One:  ...Remains at large, vain masochistic



(In unison)
Three, One:
ripe and tired
uninspired
where is all our luck
 
Three:
spit it out stupid
we kidnapped cupid
and I don't give a fuck

One:
amped and ready
hold her steady
now slam into that truck

 Two:
...empty...

One:
gotta go, gotta date with
a six year old boy and
you've gotta date with death
 
Three:
the fissures of genocide size broken hearts
are perpetual marble slabs, fit to enforce floors
of lonely wolve's laments and ravings that/

One:
at home for the first time this century
the sweetest peaches his mother's gift
he bit into an earwig pit
 
Two:
bittersweet ups the ante.
 
One:
so many moons forgiving numbered nights of no word.

 
Two: Show me!

One: less father and son

Three:  (by the way, your dog passed)

Two: but more

Three: (and the left foot got gout)

Two: more and more

One:  two men...at a kitchen card table
bill-piled and ashfull.

Three, Two:  Show me!
 
One:
a knife at his throat
he grabbed the rusty blade
by the naked palm of his hand
and with a play-back worthy swiftness
he informed his wrongful assailant
that there was nothing left to take

Three:  No more tools.

Two:
now there's a bent butter knife
sitting on his floor
set especially for open
prying the sticky door.
 
Two, One:
their teeth picked and gummed
with no more tools for chewing


Three:
so many moons

Two, One:
...ever empty...
 
Three:
...news covered...
 

Two, One:
...forgiving numbered nights...



Two:  empty head

Three:  empty mouth

One:  empty bed

Two:  empty heart

Three:  so I can forget.


Two:  what do you say to this hunger?
 
One:  (silence)

Three:  what do you say?

One: 
this hole will never be full
nor ever this note be sung

Two:  No more!

One:
millions of memories
shrouded in swathes of
"what have I done?"


Two:  what do you say to this hunger building
up from the floor off an empty belly warehouse

Three:
a broken heart's not broken
till every willing vertebrae
is smashed purblind, Useless
to command the adoration
born from many sleepless Days
tossing and turning from daydreaming


One:  our hands have never won

Three:
our cards were never dealt
 Two:       our hands will never win
Three:
Victim

Two:
Perpetrator

One:
Bystander