Basie Allen
                                                                               when I hear those whispers moon
                                                          out your crescent mouth

                                    dressed in criminally
                        innocent smiles

                     cracked open
                  so culprit laugher

                 like crooked stars snapping their points off
               for the pawn shop re-up

                I re-so fall
            in love
        with you
        again
        everyday


 melt beside your free-so tongues
  so side-effect wild
 

abandoned train track
          grass gorgeous

          dry aqueduct perfect

       the way metal has learned to rust
                        in order to make it back to nature

                                         I wonder too if you can see me rusting
                                         tryna make it home to the nature in you

                             talk-to-me-nice       you say

                                          under suck-tooth missives
                                                                        shucked from night-shells

                                                                           so under the beak
                                                                           I'm learning

                     es lo mismo so que

             wince pleasure
        sweetest pain
     first sips from fridge-cold mezcal

 
pero la vina es so simplemente major
 or so I've heard

   when we met       

       I brought flowers I picked from in between the city's missings

         lilies and wild tulips with haikus
            cute shit

                 written about the way I wanted to so and so
                    sweet with you
                       and you

                                 cause I thought I was a bad nigga
                                      and I wanted you to too

                                                  but you brought a bouquet of stolen thunder
                                                             from some hush-now-babied lightning storm

                                        cause only you
                                              the most oouu'est baddy

                                                                   te so amo-sote

                                                                                              know how to talk a cloud
                                                                                                                          into giving away
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