Flightless Bird, American Mouth

I was a quick wet boy, diving too deep for coins

All of your street light eyes wide on my plastic toys

Then when the cops closed the fair,

I cut my long baby hair

Stole me a dog-eared map and called for you everywhere

Have I found you Flightless bird, jealous,

weeping or lost you, american mouth

Big pill looming

Now I'm a fat house cat

Nursing my sore blunt tongue

Watching the warm poison rats curl through the wide fence cracks

Pissing on magazine photos

Those fishing lures thrown in the cold And clean blood of

Christ mountain stream

I found you Flightless bird, grounded,

bleeding or lost you, american mouth

Big pill stuck going down

FLIGHTLESS BIRD, AMERICAN MOUTH

iron and wine