A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace

So long everything!, he shouted, then he ran next door to Margot's house

I'm moving, he said

Where?, asked Margot

Two weeks away, said Mitchell

Where is that?, asked Margot

It's everywhere I will be after I walk for two weeks, said Mitchell

I have lived in the same place for a long time, it is time for me to go some place else

No, said Margot; you have only lived next door for fifteen years

Sixteen, said Mitchell

Fifteen, sixteen, what's the difference?, said Margot, I want you to stay next door forever

I can't, said Mitchell, I do not want to go wake up in the same old bed

And eat breakfast in the same old kitchen

Every room in my house is the same old room, because I have lived there too long

You turn on a spindle

You're so much looser now but you're not explaining how you gained such new repose

I touch the clasp of your locket, with its picture held

Some secret you wouldn't tell but let it choke your neck

So we imagine a darkness where all shapes divide, solids changing into light

With a burst of heat so bright

Well fine, don't you do what I want you to

Don't degrade yourself the way that I do 'cause

You don't depend on all the shit that I use to make my moods improve

And you look at me and think, same old face, same old tail

Same old scale, same old walk, same old talk, same old Margot?

No, said Mitchell, I like your face, tail, scale, walk, and talk

I like you

I like you too, said Mitchell. He walked through the door

I must pack, he said

Near a sea of pianos, there were waves of chords that crashed

Against the shore in one huge and useless roar

And there were girls bringing water, like a dream

They came to cool the fever of my brain, and soothe my burning throat

And they made me a necklace, hanging beads of sweat on a string of my regrets

And placed it round my neck and they were singing

Don't you do what you've wanted to

Yeah, don't destroy yourself like those cowards do and maybe

The sun keeps coming up because it has gotten used to you

And your constant need for proof