Brand New

When I disappear, do you fear for the sister I took.
When I disappear, it is clear I am up to no good.
I am drearily bloodletting this bedwetting cosmonaut.
"Son, the last thing you'll realize you need is what you've already got."

So touch me or don’t.
Just let me know,
Where you’ve been.

Please drop me a line with a hook and some raw bleeding bait.
(One, two, three, four.)
For I am uncaught and still swimming alone in the lake.
(Five, six, seven, eight.)
Shimmering under a moon made in anger and hate.
Shimmering like a penny out of reach in the subway grate.
(Shimmering like a coin kept safe away,
You never give in to anything.)

So touch me or don’t.
Just let me know,
Where you’ve been.

We could leave it alone.
I’m sure there’s someone who knows,
Where you’ve been.

You never worked well with our group.
Not with the faults we found.
So we fixed you with cement galoshes,
And no one can save you now.
Unless you have friends among fish,
There’ll still be no air to breathe.
You could drink up the entire ocean.
I’ll still find someone to be everything we know that you’ll never be.

So touch me or don’t.
Just let me know,
Where you’ve been.

Or we could leave it alone.
I’m sure there’s someone who knows,
Where you’ve been.