Vagabond put down your ho and rake
tramp lost his hand because he stole from pharaohs plate
his mate is now a concubine, don't dare to call it rape,
a harem pet she'd lost her mind, then finds it in the hate

for what she was, in luster's love, at comfort in this place
power in the caliphate perhaps she judged with haste

dear vagabond, a lover spurned why try to broach the gate
the god-king got an army and his dice will roll your fate

the role the hobo had, cast aside for beast of burden,
replaced by ox or bull; machines with algorithmic learning
sweat blood oil toil wheels must keep turning
the stacks of fuel were always fit for earning or for burning

it takes a long time to turn a ship that's grown so massive
titan hulking lumber dumb, suture limb and muscle placid
cause the plastic is a drug as sure as opium and crack is
caffeinated adderall television acid

a pattern's bound to break given scales across time
slither on ouroboros for we will catch your mind
tie you to caduceus twist fabric of your rhyme
spine, there is a truth in us, genetic fishing line

we will play your scales and harmonize with seas
cuddle with the subtle wish of Venus climbing trees

ink we found tattooed to the shavings of her limbs
marks the blanket round the space where our story first begins

tales told of heroes witches monsters beasts and kin
libraries been encrypted, light houses all our sin

dim and hollowed moans echoes bones of Mary's ghost
a story be the law ringing glass aloft for toasts

The speeches were not welcome, snake oil in our ears
We prefer to suckle on emotions language disappears.

Intuition guides the penning of our universal law
The ink is in the file heading, coded in the scrawl

Pinned atop your wall, scrolls beyond the wheels reach
stigmatize the social eyes scanning for a breach

The blackened mirror that you hold a pendulum at best
keeping time, lock step march determining the rests

The staff is now enchanted as is front of house and guests
Service to the wordless burdens shackling her breath

She must avert her gaze when her vagabond is near
He's a fire fly, door ajar, he won't disappear

Conditioned trained to know his place within the glass and cork
She tipped him over urged him on, his story at a fork

But both of them have grown so fond of their respective chains
Servitude and social bonds, compare selective shame

how we supposed to communicate when towers bound to babble
sell your cells roommate space near dwellers lost at travel
i don't think you'd catch me hear are accents distorted words
attitudes speaks loudest here bodies language blurs
laps in judgment memories encircled prison yard
this skull becomes a drug of mine solitary playing cards
the past is filled with facts and the futures are absurd
artifacts with little tact contracting pacts with little birds

so they sing
because the words have lost all meaning
and they drink
think it's the bubbles they were reading?
and they laugh
that was nice it's worth repeating
and they dance
until their shoe soles started bleeding