text: We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest
  Shedding skin faster than skin can grow
  And armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives
  Words to meet and to define and to... but you must know
  The same games that we played in dirt, in dusty school yards
  Have found a higher pitch and broader scale
  Than we feared possible, someone must be picked last
  And one must bruise and one must fail
  And that still twitching bird was so deceived by a window
  So we eulogized fondly, we dug deep, and threw
  Its elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole
  And then rushed out to kill something new
  So we could bury that too
  The first chapters of lives almost made us give up altogether
  Pushed towards tired forms of self immolation
  That seemed so original. I must, we must never stop
  Watching the sky with our hands in our pockets
  Stop peering in windows when we know doors are shut
  Stop yelling small stories and bad jokes and sorrows
  And my voice will scratch to yell many more, but
  Before I spill the things I mean to hide away
  Or gouge my eyes with platitudes of sentiment
  Ill drown the urge for permanence and certainty
  Crouch down and scrawl my name with yours in wet cement