My Electric Chair

• My Electric Chair

My Electric Chair

Wrap my heart in fairy lights
So I can sit adrift and watch the scene
Of me blinking on and off like a motel sign
Through a rainy car windscreen

Mouth is dry, creatures fly
And arch their backs across my eyes
Someone put wheels on
My electric chair

Bathe my heart in a strange embalm
So I can feel the blissful standing still;
I will cease to blink and shine
We stir your body
And pour it into mine.

Tall sky, take a slice,
Lay it out across the ice,
Someone put wheels on
My electric chair

Wrap my heart in bubble wrap,
So I can feel, so I can just feel
The close comfort, the crumpled comfort
The sweet compulsion, the sweet addiction.

Mouth is dry, creatures fly
Wheel and dive across my eyes
Someone put wheels on
My electric chair

Fingernails numb, creatures sliding off the tongue,
Someone put wheels on
My electric chair

String of lights beating time,
I've yet to find, complete my crime
Someone put the wheels on.

© Brendan Bonsack
November 2012

1. Everybody Hungers
2. K
3. Flame Songs
4. My Electric Chair
5. All that is Solid Melts into Air
6. Selling the End of the World
7. A Dead Man's Clothes
8. Party Songs

Party Songs
Released November 2012