let's not go there tonight

i'd been a book dealer

in milwaukee for a few

years at that point

drinking heavily

in the darkness

so you can see the face

of it coming into the

light

building the thing

one stone at a time

up and into the sky

with it's dreamy blindings

in the darkness

so you can see the face

of it coming into the

light

the thought of you

with your head filled up

with brown borrowed

beliefs

in the darkness

so you can see the face

of it coming into the

light

my neck covered in

large boils bleeding

into the priests long

dark woolen robe

in the darkness

so you can see the face

of it coming into the

light