Mount Hum

Nauseated at the beach, we’re watching white birds

Flock around competing at the prizes

We give ‘em a slice of gum

A loaded trunk with everything you left outside in east fairmont

Water bottles feed the kids

You knew that you forgot that you knew

We’re back here somewhere before you learned to read

The music never changed, your heart just quit beating

We held cd’s in our hands, our legs tied to our shoes

Will you spend the next few hours working

While I rest with my head on the floor?

Did you leave the rest to rot in memory?

Did you remember to build a memorial?

Will they see us in the living room

Between the key and your front door?

Come off and fall, so that I can pick you up

Our homes are not the kinds of places you’d own

Where the pieces of the pieces go when walls corrode

Where the water spills in waterbeds when we’re alone

(We were ghosts even then, errant sunlight on our skin

Sunlight, sunlight

And we drove out to the bluffs, raced each other through the dust

We’re all gonna die)