Quarry

Quarry - Wednesday

The rain-rotted house on the dead

End of Baytree old bitter lady

Sits caddy corner to the aftershock from the quarry

She says America's a spoiled child that's ignorant of grief

But then she gives out full-sized candy bars on Halloween

We had to add it to the tab

To die we'd have to settle up

So we just go until we can't

Or burn it down to feel the heat

The Kletz brothers' parents fight

In the yard in their underwear

Bobby and Jimmy sit

In the baby pool with lice in their hair

They have scoliosis from constant slumps in misery

Flat parts on their crew cuts from laying

Their heads on their knees

We had to add it to the tab

To die we'd have to settle up

So we just go until we can't

Or burn it down to feel the heat

Georgie set fire to acres of cotton setting off model rockets

The kid from the Jewish family got the preacher's kid pregnant

They sent her off and

We never heard too much more about it

The sweet talk never lasts

And you learn to go on without it

We had to add it to the tab

To die we'd have to settle up

So we just go until we can't

Or burn it down to feel the heat

Somebody called the cops on Mandy and her boyfriend

When they busted in they found

That her house was a front for a mob thing

They pulled guns and c*****e from

The drywall wrapped in newspaper

We gathered in the tall grass

And watched unblinking as they cuffed 'em and hauled 'em away

We had to add it to the tab

To die we'd have to settle up

So we just go until we can't

Or burn it down to feel the heat

When we give up we go-

To sleep