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gutterbreed - chinaman — Description
This is a country where
I can't watch spiders weave their webs between
My fingers
I powdered my face with alkaline dust
And went out to fall in love with
Wind storms and end-of-summer sunlight

He found me, in boots with too many buckles
Drunk on the playa, singing
Row Row Row Your Boat
To a lake with no water
I could hear my skin crackle as I lifted my arms,
Laced my fingers around his neck and
Pressed my forehead to his cheek -
It was rugged, the way his shadowed face
Stung against my sunburn

At night the lights gave way to alcohol, my world
Swayed as I did on his shoulders
We watched as men danced with tesla coils, and
Made love to lightning
There were serpents breathing fire, but I couldn't care -
I was breathing dust, the dehydration was
Marvelous

Summer trailed, like
The tail of a heavy lizard, like
Infatuations that grow heavy with
You as the foundation
But I was a desert child, my hair
White from the dust devils that
Threw me to you, and the new kind of love
That lasts until you want it to