The mercury lift

We plant our teeth, as we are conditioned, firmly in our tongues. Rather than speak, exposing weakness, as our mouths fill up. I have a talent for destroying. When I touch it breaks. Now arrange the...

Now it evens out between black and white. A victim of choice, so matter of factly said: I'm working on the best two out of three. In half-time we move, lines blurring fact and fiction. We merely...

baptized by kilowatts and ohms, what's left is waiting. the embers rise like incense carry prayers for what is next to come. carry me on silver wings to meet with vulcan. to be forged anew and rise...

The smokestacks breathe like spitting out the truth. White lines disguised as fuel consumed. Under grayblue skies we are simple machines, marks matched with greatness but tempting fate. Lines, Faces,...

Parade your black-heart, a Judas kiss laced with nicotine. With a chance to know you, some parts of us are best left unseen. Slapped in the face with the will it takes to love someone. A confidant or...

Missed every detail (just move on) but now the wait is up. I'm lying and I'm begging that it is done this time. (Could it be done this time?) "Engine�? still turning, why can't we shut this off?...

Can we get back to the time when everything was simple then? "The truth is,�? she said. "I thought we'd won.�? Each night we lay in desperation. Always think of the right words when our...

The Chain of Events Leading up to this Has come from some unseen Direction When all that you have is what you shared Then at once you find it's gone Go back and forth between two lines don't leave a...

Should we raise our voices just to break the silence with no substance? Bearing into this page with the weight of a thousand restless words. I'm holding on to something long since dead it’s keeping...

City streets will bleed through and I'm holding out for just whatever. Some things never come. Every sure thing every loop, and nothing to oppose. It's all in how you read between the lines. The lines...