Mah Bludthurstee Mowth Iz Dreye...

Mah bludthurstee mowth iz dreye
Gottz ah nead, butt ane't noe wie
I'ma blayme dis un' ohn dat der skeye
Kuzz datz da playce da piggs'll flie

Tuk ah meatyoright
Ta mah skole tahnyte
Lyke ah kosmic joeke waz wayged
Ala dat ole boi, ah- Finneeyus Gayje
Iz ah ayleeann stickd uhp inn mah brane
Or'd I jus' git nocked ah bitt ensane
Allz I noez iz, I ghotz ah thurst nowe
Datz gon' breeng mee ta mah wurst nowe

Mah mowth bee gettin' sow dayng dri
I'z gonna keel sume blud filld gize
An' drink da blud lyke ah ghlass o' myllk
Or ah bugg trappd uhp en spyder'z cylk
I'z loozin' ahll mah erthly whil
I juz' gotz ta, gotz ta, gotz ta keel

I spose I maya bin ah lil bitt dronke

Win dat spase-rok gayv mah skole ah thumbp

Tha dayng thang iz, et doughn't nott leeve noe lumbp

Et jus leeve mah hare strype lyke ah skonk

I rekon I mayha myssd mah meadz

butt dat doughn't 'splane mah stryped hed

orr wie fokes ceem ta mee ta nede bee ded

I tel ya, I ane't jus mayken stuhf uhp

Az I youse yer skole az ah cippee kup

Mah thurst steale gitten wurse an wurse

Bekuze ah dis unwholee kurse

Mah bludthurstee mowth iz sow dayng dri

Aht dis poynt et doghn't nott madder wie

Da poelice dunn ghone ahn klosed en ohn mee

Dey ane't tu smhart, sow dey'll bee sahrree

Kuzz win dey putt dem kuffs upp ohn mee

Mah meatyoright gon mayke mee onnree

Ahd nunn dem piggs gon bee noewayr forr et

Win I cend dem fleye'n enta orbitt

Mah bludthurstee mowth iz dreye

Et whern't dat wey wen I waz hye

Ahnd stairen uhp aht dat der skeye

Nowe dem der piggs I mayked ta fleye

Bee ranein blud frum uhp sow hye

Ta quinch mah thurst llyord, buye ahn buye

Wud breeng souch joi-us teers ta mah blud sowkd iyez

Butt, mah bludthurstee mowth iz stil sow dreye

Distance...

See the shadow

See the light

See the whole world

Suspended in-between

Caught-up in the distance

An owl's eyes 

A mouse's whiskers

One frozen in focus

One flinching & fidgety

Hunger and fear

Gazing across oblivion

Glaring against the distance

Dreams behind blind eyes

Memories of photographs

A foreign face 

flat and fleshless 

stares from the surface

of a muddled mirror

This idea of who I am,

Who I've become,

Who I'm becoming,

Whoever I ever/never was,

Who I wish I...

My true unknowable self

All somewhere else now

Always somewhere else

Somewhere in some distance

Between latest facts

and eternal truths

Between understanding

and wisdom

Between the dream

and the waking

Across the oblivion

of all we ignore and forget

Unto the oblivion

of all we grasp 

until it all slips away

There is a distance

From failure

To triumph

From victory

To defeat

As the mind wanders

As the soul wonders

As we are stranded

As we escape

As we feast

As we starve

As we lay dying alone, 

or in loving arms,

or in strangleholds

As we struggle

As we surrender

As we remember,

or forget, or imagine

Past, Present, Future

There is distance

From life being given

To learning how to live

From every fatal fear

To every inspired ideal

From darkest nightmeres

To most illuminating dreams

From whatever it is we call, now

To effemoral efforts to truly be here,

and from here to the ends of eternity

In moments of perpetual passing

or times of transcendent timelessness

There is always a distance

All these places

keeping us going,

being burried behind us,

burring us beneath them

Places awaiting our arrival,

preparing our exile,

or just waiting all the while

As we seek to traverse

the vast expanse,

find our fateful place,

& explore the deeper depths

of all we can endure

All within the distance