Skeleton Crew
They said they would give me money.
They said they would buy me a white dog.
We asked for a future smaller than a spider’s paw.
We said if you keep us alive a little longer
If your circulation suffers to produce surrender
you will collect our infinite dust in a Dixie cup.
Unearth me a protean accomplishment by placing
gothic systems in the roundness of my tubes
While I breathe information on the fuselage
like a defunct rose in drab suburbs of memory.
They said they would buy me a white dog.
We asked for a future smaller than a spider’s paw.
We said if you keep us alive a little longer
If your circulation suffers to produce surrender
you will collect our infinite dust in a Dixie cup.
Unearth me a protean accomplishment by placing
gothic systems in the roundness of my tubes
While I breathe information on the fuselage
like a defunct rose in drab suburbs of memory.