look: i ate all the books in your bedroom and they took my blood and tested it in small doses as in: over time, they pulled it out see: they took me from the savagery and the surgery of my own body we break in threes, i swallow these: ______ i sing my own gallimaufry and when sister says call the police: that wiseacre ain't gettin' me! she said they held me down until release and i scratched my head into the streets there's fragments now (all in me) of hospitals (all in me) but they can keep my blood for as long as they damn well need it they can break into my house at night and listen to my secrets i've been through the fire yes, i've seen it so what are we waiting for? we've wolves, we're willing to waste and we slice each other into steaks - yes, oh yes and we slice each other into steaks - don't we, yes