Solemn Show World - Parts & Labor

I remember I recall frozen streets and ice and white and blue

Detritus of last night’s songs, toes so numb I wish the day were through

I’m never now but here somehow the details starkly true

This room could be off any hall that window open bright to any view

Still I strain to take it all in, colors all at once many and few

A blander panorama bleached by pasts that I once knew

Slender February pall no our fenders icicles that grew

Morning churns hungover calls operators standing by for you

The weather dropping off the walls, I’m buried like the truth

Wires tangled up they crawl through the trees that camouflage their ruse

Single cliche raven caws savoring the metaphors abused

The innocence, the wait involved before that black bird flew

Cancel out this awkward pause, a pseudo system shiftily pursued

Sitting on a couch in thaw at the mercy of mistakes accrued

A somewhere like the others sorely lacking in the new

And the droning of commuter cars

Hollow diners empty bars

A solemn show world offs itself for you

Escape the house that looks like all the others in a sinking mass produced

Towns as wide as they are tall shrinking in a dwindling debut

I’ve left it now but still somehow

I’m sitting there eroding stare

The blanket’s cold