COMBUSTION

after

polar vortex

Texas

deregulation power grid

a love story

now hot In here, a week later

i'll melt with you

in the hallway, an alley south

of Houston always sirens singing

luring sailors lost and rootless

cop cars rear view mirrors a skull

remembered pounds of flesh

in the city i owe you a lonely man

walking fortunes under the scarlet evenings

Influence furnace foreclosure beer cheap

with a texan drawl a lone star up above

possible saxon angelo with a black foot sole

three stars orion on a belt buckle a portal

i'm not accustomed her belly of vodka razors

gods only know we are told from the ancient tomes

we are won over with the same outdated sacrifices burning hearts a bar down town gives me credit