as loud as hell

a ringing bell

behind my smile

it shakes my teeth

and all the while

as vampires feed

i bleed

prithee, my dear,

why are we here

nobody knows

we go to sleep

as breathing flows

my mind secedes

i bleed

there's a place

in the buried west

in a cave

with a house in it

in the clay

the holes of hands

you can place

a hand in hand

in bleed