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The words avoid my tongue
A wish to awake picture less
To lean your fever up against mine

Trees are growing from our grave
Roots are tangled in our bones

Polish girls in ruins tease
Like Chinese letters left undone
On a black wall invitation
Say goodnight before you go

Cut lips on frozen words
Cracked teeth on hard syllables
Wolf's milk and painted eggs
An opium eater's dream

Ruined and undone

When the moon decides to show
A writing spiders counts your teeth

Something broke in you
Before your heart stopped ticking
You go undone

Cold and quiet, ocean lungs peel away
Time and distance, a black wall invitation
Calm and lost the ripeness of the hour

A black wall invitation say goodnight
Baptize this off of me before we turn bad

The words avoid my tongue
A wish to awake picture less
To lean your fever up against mine