There is a doorway

Somewhere down those clock-clean, bleeding streams of sleep

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A blooming time we made of it, midnight dancing
And the leaves hung like skin

The air-licked darkness warm as sleep's soft fingers on the face

That forgotten night of the little goddess

The rain beat down like screams

We all were

Blind to that unholy nothing
The silent flight of time in the crawling skies

Those mad eyes in the butchers' garden

I thought I saw

And sanity, the impetus for our stillborn dreams

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The slowrain fell heavy

Palpable it seems, though now I know

A flower-gentle time of sleeping air, and so we whispered

And what a thing it is, a whispered laugh
Untouchable beauty

And pain more sweet than I could bare

Our stranger-steps took us through the questions of a nameless wonder

In that still-spinning ethereality of that tender lightfall through the vanilla clouds

So every breath was our first

And all our spellbound memories-real-as-time a cool, fresh nothing

A restless dream

And then we drowned

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And then, and then, the day broke!
And light spilled upon that love-corrupted corpsefield time

When the words of morning buried what was never born

A nameless beauty, cause for all my narcissistic suicide premonitions
A savage flower of the only birth

I would have changed

And we, in our faith, were murderers

Shook-hearty bloody hands

Planted slow kisses on that freshly-dead neck

Embraced, with masochistic smiles, our slow, psychotic, lovesick maledictions

Ghost-white memories of our breathless young-tongue touching in the dying light of days

And our star-dancing, shotgun stares lit up the blackness

Burned in the shadows of the cold-smoke anthem

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And then it came

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The restless bad-blood pumped

Dawn brought prayers

And we, the choirs of rampage, drew the blood into our cheeks

And the very darkness shivered

Gave way to a cannibalistic morning

That was the waterway for a maniac light

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But the flower never, never bloomed 

And no fruit fell

So we that ate sleep underground

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There is a doorway

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