abandoned at the roadside
with scraps of chitin and formaldehyde
skunk carrion and open eyes those who know where you've been
chalk and sod and blood and maggots and oil and pavement and scenery and regret
those who know they can't forget don't forget but
i still look at the reflection on the pavement covered with engine oil and it looks the same as it always has
if it's a scene it's a scene whether or not you can see the veins or the brain or the spleen
when you say oxygen and it's carbon monoxide
abandoned at the road on the outside
carry your weight all the way to the gents at the next petrol station because they'll get it, they'll get it
those who know history might still repeat it because we forget it, we forget it
and when i look at the reflection on the pavement covered with rain water and mud and what used to be skunk fur
what i see is still what i used to see and if i go there now, i'll see the same thing