All's Fair

siphon fed lipstick override
ringworm around the watchtower
with a pocketful of baby teeth
and seashell shotgun shells
click click boom
his kiss is amari aliquid
russian roulette to the heart
and the bullet’s in the sixth chamber
pistol-whipped by
eyes blue as bruises
and running deep as veins
take root here in the catacombs
crudely fashioned as a soul
father a tree of knowledge to feed on
vineyard temptress fruits of intuition
and still you will learn nothing
you never knew before

all he bleeds is water
piscatorial beautiful one
all he is is ghostvoice
and skeletal skeptical smile
but i’m trigger-happy-go-luckless
blush against barrel
flesh against futility
flesh against facade