you're my mission (Posts tagged i am in love)
if you don’t know who the mob’s chasing today, it might be you “pray for rain” is said always, even when it rains good fences make good neighbors, but barbed wire fences make neighbors fight over cut up hogs directions can be given by street name, church name, or proximity to starbucks that tree has been dead for ten years, but their brother fell out of it when he was eight, and we need the reminder everyday he keeps deer heads on his wall and your underwear in his glovebox; some trophies are worth displaying the scars on your chest don’t exist yet; everyone knows, but they don’t have prayers for it you and your cousin both wake up in the summer, sweating cold; she got the bruise on her brain wearing fatigues- you got yours at school “Bless Your Heart” doesn’t invoke blessings she gave you her cross necklace to guard while she went hunting with the boys, she never came back for it your dad’s favorite hound stares at his empty chair now more than ever- maybe you should have cremated him like he wanted everyone says you don’t deserve a mean old drunk like him, but they don’t know about that night they made you read To Kill a Mockingbird as a reminder, but your grandad still calls it ‘niggertoe pie’ every now and then, the Klan accidentally publicizes its monthly newsletter, and the town laughs about it over Sunday lunch you don’t believe in Jesus anymore, but you see Him everywhere
soft-communism
