They laughed when you told them yr name

They screamed and cried
Did their damndest
To make you come apart
You walked the edge
Of a chainlink fence
With yr hands on fire
A smile painted on yr face
Yr guts in a brown paper bag

They broke yr favorite thing
Took from you yr hardest-won toys
Those pretty pretty boys
No kiss lasts, you said
No tide relieves me
Something as simple as flames
You broke it down
Took them to places
They never wanted to go

I see you now
On the edge of some
Inconquerable cliff
Pointing to the foam
With broken fingers
Mouthing truth
Faking it among whitecaps
Made to madden and reinvent you

Waves break because everything does
And there is no more time
In the revolver's chambers

Yr skin is someone else's leather
Stretched too tight to fit
Over hollows where bones
Don't know their place
Locked in the execution
Of half-assed pirouettes
Spun in the periphery