Ghost

Threatened firmament

and gold above us

I keep waiting

for stars to fall on me

Is there a difference

between the icecaps melting

and the dead air

of not being received

If I weren't so egocentric

To want a grander ending

I'd rake my brains out

to stop thinking all day

I'd bind my ankles

to stop running away

What would they all say?

Just another white man's day

Here's a token of past

consequences

Set against your teeth

Another basket of pretenses

All the blood that's ugly -

Oh my blood that's ugly!

I see it that way

What was it then?

Oh you see it that way

That was it then

I see it that way

What was it then?

You see it that way

I was a ghost

A ghost with claws and all

With entrails on my paws

A breathless awful paunch

A steroidal underscore

An ugly list of all I bought

A cutting fucking afterthought

Yes, I am a ghost

Yes, I am a joke