Twenty Moons Grade

why are people more interested

in how a building reaches to the sky than it touches the ground?

she is always looking up

as I pull concrete from my teeth

and in exchange of complication

if I lose her where will I be her

20 moons elude me in my time of need

bells and hammers are rarely friends

but my promises stand tall

and are here with me the fly's will feed on corpses

as do the frogs on them and the mosaic

of broken bottles lodged in my neck, bleeds conveniently