Vincent(e) Lyrics

Culpable and subject to a thousand errors and inputs

Platitudinal, impregnable an alphabet tipsy and barefoot

Vernacular is a limit, formal and amusing

Gesture evades capture, evaporates and always moving

Poetry is so pretentious it's enough to exist and

Inhabit a shared place extending and falling through empty space

Between shoulder blades and piano keys, capacity unfolding deficient for speech

I can't recall the address of that dark old house was it remodeled or demolished

In a Vincent Price southern gothic sonnet anonymous where the pendulum had fallen

Standing in smithereens, a mystery unseen, abundant in the heat

Culpable and subject to a thousand errors and inputs

Platitudinal impregnable an alphabet tipsy and barefoot

Insufferable an object through which profound terror pushes inwards

Institutional intelligible a silhouette hobbling and injured

No parades or parties here, volleyball on the beach

In separate beds at the boarding house

Matrimony besieged when original feelings are compromised

By tea, ketamine, serenades, suburban streets and sympathy

The pharmacy where the college kids and sailors slung hash to the rejects on the anchor

A Vincente Minelli salient saber, elegant as it drags across the paper

Headlines, theater-house and a furnace proscenium of meat

Culpable and subject to a thousand errors and inputs

Platitudinal, impregnable an alphabet tipsy and barefoot

Insufferable an object through which profound terror pushes inwards

Institutional intelligible a silhouette hobbling and injured

Subtle and consumable a blink in the midst of cosmic drama

A brush and a scrape friction takes a conspiracy of hands and commas