1. BLACK MARROW

You used have to sit and watch me shiver
Now gather around as my head house crumbles
And of all the things Baal could deliver
You will ramble, I will rumble
There’s no more wars about all that
Draws nine of swords on my shadows
As my presence spinning flat
And hallow
In an effort to forfend my death blows

I sear my fingers black
Merciless and clawing back

This suffocation
Is purgatory
A rumination
Of everything
So focused on all
The subtleties of
Your elevated
Survival instincts

You’d always point out sharp turns I’d make
That’s where your relic began to radiate
Just as I birthed my tenth pair of teeth
You conjure ardor for vegetative state

So I Let the receiver hang
To call upon Baal again and again
But he just lets the phone ring
Asleep to the new government
That’s formed inside my head

If that sense was given permission
To greet the wolf blood that is on my breath
And if your chest could feel the beating
Of the pigs heart that’s living in me

Black marrow
Black -
Black marrow
Into the abyss
Where it’s just that the night never came
Black marrow
Esoteric pit
Where I no longer flinch at your name

Now I’m breaking out the fresh salt
Where I hold the nightly seance
A lull toward the cacophony of silence
Aberrant to the configurations of grief

I sear my fingers black
Merciless and clawing back

Still focused on all
The subtleties of
Your elevated
Survival instincts