(Surrender to the sun
Go blind before I turn back)
Cerated, my rib cage
The birds go where the birds go
Outrunning a desert has never worked, save Moses
What messenger allures you
What passenger ever survives
Lay witness a minefield, and above, the ravens
I am the wasteland, the desert itself, the way my feet become the sand
Gateway nowhere, I chose decay
My tar teeth stick to my tongue
Swallowed poison and kept it down
Onward, I chose the rot
Singing hallelujah
Sunward, heatstroke
Into the burning blue
(I reach to touch the face of god)
Cauterize me