A Family Dinner

from Pit. by Transient In Barcelona

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A father grunts
and throws a fresh pound
onto the slab.
The doors are locked. The walls are whispering.
The chairs are empty. Outside
a shrieking silence is building, the trees
are shedding and cementing
themselves to the planet
to the sounds of slaughtering
farmhands and innocence
perverted in the barn.
The beds are stale. The pillows are stained.
The chairs are empty. Everything
is coming down anvils and his head
is involuntarily shaven.
He is muttering to himself
and drawing the shower curtain. He is popping the bubbles,
sinking deeper; becoming undefined
in the darkness.
The sink is fluorescent. The floor is backwards.
The chairs are empty.
He is wandering on a barren
prairie looking for children without playgrounds
and a horse to drown.
He is dancing
with farmers daughters with murder on his breath
and choking himself with tumbleweeds. The weddings
in the middle of nowhere
and the funerals
down the road are roosters at midnight.
The weathervane
is lacerating his umbrella
with the laughter of his kin. The grass is the color of his stomach.
The wool has been singed and pulled. The pork more pure
than you or I. The sirens are his saviors.
The chairs are empty.

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from Pit., released October 31, 2014
lyrics by Sylvia
track art by Ken Lavey

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