I Can Read Smoke

I can read smoke No joke I can read smoke Not in this life When you were a more elegant beast You cut my throat there's dance in my blood The jilted control the narrative Because that's all that they have left Encouraging belief is vulgarity Mean-spirited air quotes to wit Pasolini in New York shouldn't be this boring Fine people say disillusion finds a way I can read smoke in white noise I can read smoke Driving a dead man's car thinking the funk will protect me Journey through walls a dagger plays Pasolini in New York shouldn't be this boring Fine people say disillusion always finds a way I can read smoke