Hi-C.

Amazingly calm, I slip out of a skin
Maybe not by the hair on my chin
But at least by the skin of my teeth
I blow like the wind
I float like a leaf
Under a skeleton grin
I look into the water and -
Once again I release and I slowly descend into darkness
The fungus born on the park bench glows
And tickles your nose
And drips from the drywall
Into your eyeball
Onto your clothes and your pillowcases and your sheets and -
Murmurs to your heart as it beats
"You're an ocean of blood
Swimming out in an ocean of gas."
Dropping in through a hole in the sky
Looking up from the foot of a hydrogen blast

God can't help you now
(Trying hard
God can't help you now
To remember
God can't help you now
What's going on.)

How does it feel to believe, my beloved?
And love it even as you hover above it?
And leave it as something to covet until
By the strength of your will
You give in and
Shove it
In your face?
For a taste
CMB from the depths of space and dust particles in the attic
Are like anything: enveloped in the static
And the thoughts in my head are erratic
If I gave it to you would you break it?
Or keep it safe?
With the key on the dresser as I lay to rest in a body that's naked
Dirty and sacred
Wicked and lovely
Dust of the heavens above me
As the memory of me
Shines

God can't help you now
(Trying hard
God can't help you now
To remember
God can't help you now
What's going on.)

Amazingly well
I slip out of my head
Stepping over a body as dead as the nail sticking out the door
I'm hovering over the floor

I'm hovering over the floor