Flightless Bird, American Mouth

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

All of your straight blind 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 everywhereHave I found you

Flightless bird, jealous, weeping or lost you, american mouth

Big pill loomingNow I'm a fat house cat

Nursing my sore blunt tongue

Watching the warm poison rats curl through the wide white fence cracks

Pissing on magazine photos

Those fishing lures thrown in the cold

And clean blood of Christ mountain streamHave I found you

Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding or lost you, american mouth

Big bill stuck going down