“Across your face
I see what you are
You wanna kill the sun
Blot out the stars

I know you, you're nothing
You're so small
You're fucking nothing
Nothing at all

The sun burns on
It reminds me of you
The slit wrists of the sky
Bleeding into the blue”
-from "The Blue" by Acid Bath

What happened to those endless dark nights
Black fingernails gripping cold beers in seedy bars
Strings screaming the devil’s diminished note
Feet pounding dirty floors, hips swaying to the drums
Outside, southern nights laid hot and sticky
Scents of pine and damp earth mingle with
Cigarette smoke and sweat and sex and rain
Long hair swaying to blues infused rhythms
Young bodies celebrating, defiant, intoxicated
With lunacy even on moonless nights
Sound waves vibrating through the chest
Slamming those crowded near, who, in turn
Push back with shear excited energy
Bodies crammed together with one focus
Confident, knowing that this boundless age
Will last forever, tonight they will make it so
Tonight, if only tonight, they will join,
Becoming one with the darkness, eternally.

And tomorrow the sun will rise to sting their eyes.

08/25/2006

Posted on 08/25/2006
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