Making Love at the Edge of the Anthropocene
You wanna get real fucking weird? You wanna go outside? It’s december in milwaukee: me and you sitting on the sidewalk curb. We’re shoveling construction gravel into our gaping open mouths We’re scooping up cement to hurl into traffic We’re screaming at the cars Horns blare Passengers shout “move your feet out from the street’, Honey. You are ending my world and taking fistfuls of bees in your pockets when you go. You wanna hear something strange? Why not? Don’t you wanna come over for dinner? My uncle, the butcher, he’ll be there He’ll have a whole pig on a spit in the front yard, Here, I’ll let you dip your hand down the open back of my dress Here, you can listen while he explains to you the intricacies of carving off the swine's ear. Cut your fingers on the vertebrae running up my spine, Here, you can fish out the eyeballs with a fork, And pop them in between my teeth. You liked it weird? Well, I’ll give you my worst While we’re pretending to sleep in this stranger’s bed, Here, I’ll take your hand in mine Here, I’ll peel your index finger away from your thumb Here, I’ll dip my tongue into your soft webbed skin Come on. We can go walk over to the park when the weather gets nice. We can bring scissors to the courts and Fill our tennis balls with match tips Grab your racket, baby We’ll light up the whole park. Let’s get my mom to call her friends and start a facebook group for our reprimand. Isn’t that fun? Let’s burn all the trees to the ground. You said you wanted to kill time? Let’s drive half an hour to the European Grocery store Let’s blare the techno music with the windows down Let’s dump our loose change out for the cashier Buy armfuls of pomegranates crack them open on the dashboard Drive fast and loose on a dirt road I don't recognize It’s called a bloodbath, darling, Pink juice dripping down your forearms You’re staining my favorite white t-shirt You’re stuffing the seeds all down my throat You’re shoving me limp in the trunk with you’re jumper cables You’re slamming the door shut You’re driving me cross country You really know how to spark me up Wanna know something really fucking weird? Some freaky shit type of strange? I wanted to take you here in the summertime. Honey, we can put on all our winter clothes. Our long johns Our socks And puffy coats We can scream like little girls running hand in hand We can jump into the lake in July We can sink straight to the bottom with the warm heaving sand Let’s feel the weight of the world in the waves. Put your lips in between my teeth Let's drown in each other’s mouths leave our bones for the neighbors To find when it all dries up. Baby, falling in love with you feels like the ending my entire world And it doesn’t even matter when the world’s already falling apart You wanna know the strangest part? The weirdest of all these fucking weird things? If my last moment is spent with you, My ghost is gonna have to stick around and haunt the dirt It’s going to have to stay and whisper to the trees, “I made a mistake with you.”