Acrobat - Cassino

Her dress hangs like honey

Off her shoulders and across her back

Her skin is glittering

Her eyes like stained glass

That slip is a scalpel

In a chapel of broken hits

It carves or it fixes

But it always makes a mess

My love was drug home

By barbarians of debt

She says I was never

An acrobat of men

I was baptized in moonlight

The rays barely lengthened my limbs

Your songs are silhouettes

A parade of broken vets

And the ground’s grown so soft

As I fish on the river I rent

It’s so hard to stay up right

So I wade back through the stench

And swim

And I scoured the hillsides

For heaven hiding from hell

And I found not one noun

For they both were adjectives

And my love was drug home

By barbarians of debt

Their chains I remember

The pain I can’t forget