wrap your phantom limbs around me dripping darkness warm and wet black womb infested with stars scorch the earth as you retreat men in gas masks fumigated a sleeping hive honeycombed with secrets that no one will ever know mirthless laughter polite hatred pa**ive aggression burning myself in effigy for all the hateful crowds flush the baby alligator down the drain watch it grow up and prowl the crumbling sewers shooting birds out of the sky look how they fall so surprised to be dead and plummeting to the earth