Tense / Empty

David David abrogate it

Turning nurses into wine

Your Barbour jacket missing dimple

Beautifully combine

Criminality pure and simple

Drips from every trenchant sigh

It’s like your tense and empty boys

Were thatched by such design.

You’ve been getting away with it all these years

Putting backs in the corner making the most of all our fears

You’ve been getting away with it night and day

Hushing backs into corners making the most of words to say.

Every morning each a teacher

Meets a certain type of fate

The cut of cloth like slow elastic

Bends until it breaks

This early set resentment

Can and will not settle down

The words that drip from token lips

Just amplify the sound.

Don’t demonstrate with disregard

Don’t live your life with dreams

Of torment in your sullied heart

Don’t give a kiss, don’t settle down

If all you need, is to break a vow.