O Jarhead O Wife

I gave birth to body white Collected to my thighs Held her there, between my legs And brought my knees up high And she slid out, I don't know how She slid out, I don't know how And you left your meat all in the leaves Gathering sweat from the graves And you body cistern, I brought you a sister From what holes I could not crave But I'll go, and be brave I'll go and be brave I only have faith in what is good, in what is good I knew a boy who built an aviary He gathered all the wood that he could carry I pulled from his chest to get blind from the bees And we exchanged helium cause we're tired of ceilings I found him bucked out, like a jarhead His antlers found seaweed from an ocean bed And he carried carvings of his own geography But had he stabbed his own eyes out, so he couldn't see I said "I don't want to be your wife I couldn't stand to do this my whole life My breast milk is heavy And you don't have the strength to help me with this baby." And when we pull out of each other I ask you if you can tug me off You ask me if I can put you out You ask me if I can put you out Like "what fire" and "drag the shit from each other" "All the fluids from your mother" I can barely stand in your lake disease again With your vomit up to my waist And in the hospital they ask me if I know where your parts go But i tell them your body isn't made from skin they know