Dissolving in Escrow

I’ve given my best impression

Of credence to all your plans

For my life and

As for ours

I’ve had a box picked out

For a while now

 

My legendary impression

Plastered on double-sided billboards

Like taking photos at a museum

Amid great piles of clothes

But she knows

 

She lets herself out the back

Stepping past old puddles of rock

Bowing to every costumed freak

Cramming through every guarded door

Crossing dark hallways of grass

With blood drowning her socks

 

She’s sat and listened to howling crows

Waiting in back of crowded buses

Stayed up listening to my uneven heartbeat

And folds her palms on her lap

 

I’ve fallen from a thousand roofs

Jammed my fingers in a hundred screws

Choked on almost thirty of my grimy teeth

How could I forget her hand on my back

 

I’ve met a little bit of who I am

Drenched in freezing swells of rain

Sleeping in dilapidated huntsman cabins

Stood over every empty mountain pass

Smiling at every passerby

With the sun in my eyes

 

11/12/2026

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