The Calendar Hung Its Self
Bright Eyes

Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning

when you start to raise your head?

And does he sing to you incessantly

from the place between your bed and wall?

Does he walk around all day at school

with his feet inside your shoes?

Looking down every few steps

to pretend he walks with you.

Does he know that place below your neck

that is your favourite to be touched

and does he cry through broken sentences

like I love you far too much?

Does he lay awake listening to your breath?

Worried that you smoke too many cigarettes.

Is he coughing now

on a bathroom floor?

For every speck of tile

there are a thousand more

that you won't ever see

but most hold inside yourself

eternally.

I drug your ghost across the country

and we plotted out my death.

In every city, memories would whisper,

Here is where you rest.

I was determined in Chicago

but I dug my teeth into my knees

and I settled for a telephone

and sang into your machine.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

I kissed a girl with a broken jaw

that her father gave to her.

She had eyes bright enough to burn me.

They reminded me of yours.

In a story told she was a little girl

in a red-rouge, sun-bruised field

and there were rows of ripe tomatoes

where a secret was concealed.

And it rose like thunder,

clapped under our hands.

And it stretched for centuries

to a diary entry's end

where I wrote,

You make me happy

when the skies are grey

You make me happy

the skies are grey

and grey

and grey.

Well the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest

with its hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself

but I will not weep for those dying days.

For all the ones who have left

there are a few that stayed.

And they found me here

and pulled me from the grass

where I was laid.


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