Wide-Eyed, Legless

Down among the dead
 The wide-eyed
 and the legless
 only half a head
 Half a mouth to
 laugh from the porthole
 With the mold and
 faded epitaphs
 Will you evermore tie up
 my hair with velvet bows?
 Will you evermore pull
 out the splinters from my toes?
 I don't think so
 Out in the hornet
 rain the swarming
 stingers pumping
 poison through my veins
 Lying on the
 star-crossed lover's map
 Take the beating
 lash, lash for lash
 Will we evermore kiss
 on the boardwalks fading rail?
 In the light of the waves
 and the comet's waning tail
 I don't think so
 No more looking back,
 looking back,
 looking back
 Faded epitaph
 No more looking back,
 looking back,
 looking back
 Faded epitaph
 No more looking back,
 looking back,
 looking back
 Faded epitaph
 No more looking back,
 looking back,
 looking back
 Faded epitaph
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