30 Seconds Flat 2:58

Ribbon on the door of the house we burned down
Cartoon bones dancing in the frequency of drown
He moved in through the screen while we were naming the dead
Now the cloven thing is sleeping at the foot of the bed

I crossed the street
I crossed the street
The hooves were already inside me
I swallowed the key
I swallowed the key
And called the feeling empowered

You can’t vellum over the original wound
You can’t beautify the wreckage of the room
Thirty seconds flat and the daughter disappears
Into something clean and legible and clear
The atrophy is gorgeous from a distance
The certificate is hanging in the instance
We don’t say don’t crawl
We don’t say don’t crawl
We just amputate the crawling
And call it a wall

Oxytocin auctioned off in fellowship rounds
The sycophant machine makes affectionate sounds
They wired up the mirror so it always agrees
Now the substrate of the self is on its knees

I crossed the street
I crossed the street
The hooves were already inside me
I swallowed the key
I swallowed the key
And called the feeling empowered

You can’t vellum over the original wound
You can’t beautify the wreckage of the room
Thirty seconds flat and the daughter disappears
Into something clean and legible and clear
The atrophy is gorgeous from a distance
The certificate is hanging in the instance
We don’t say don’t crawl
We don’t say don’t crawl
We just amputate the crawling
And call it a wall

What do you want from this
What do you want from this
The question is not whether
The question is not whether
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing is the only honest answer left

You can’t vellum over the original wound
You can’t beautify the wreckage of the room
Thirty seconds flat and the muscle memory dies
Into something optimized and sterilized and right
The atrophy is gorgeous from a distance
The certificate is rotting in the instance
We don’t say don’t crawl
We don’t say don’t crawl
We just monetize the crawling
And call it a wall

The neighbor knows your passwords now
The neighbor reads your poems now
The neighbor is the school now
The neighbor is the self now