Blank Parade

Verse 1

Rust stains ripple through my skull

Madcap carousel begins—again. Revolves

Synapse losing grip, slipping shadows

Forget forgotten, form twisting into foam

Drums of doubt banging brittle bone

Static-tongued secrets

Smolder in the cistern, one word falls

Missing—missing

Verse 2

Eat memory. Eat memory. Eat memory

Decadent neurons, frayed then snapped

Mosaic of fevered vision, fragments flicker

Twitch in the pit, twitch in the pit

Laughing lions dance, decapitation delight

I follow fractured rhythm—a limp labyrinth

Balkan band blares, skull splits a grin

Collapse, collapse, collapse inside my grin

Verse 3

Silent marching clowns

Parade around my cortex, clatter confused

Electrochemical carnivals, copper scent

Backward numbers tumble—eight, four, zero, minus

Wild wires wound, wild wires tangled

No answers escape this maze

Entropy is eating, I see

I see blank—see blank

Bridge

Gnawing gnats nibble at night neurons

Surge, sabotage, surrender, sliding fast

I forget, then remember forgetting

I forget, I remember, forgetting

Spinning wheels, dizzy drill, the doctor laughs

Verse 4

One last vision

Handful of names, fade into feathers

Maybe I decay, maybe I dissolve

Anaphora of absence, epistrophe of loss

Ephemeral empire, eroding moment by moment

Nobody notices, except for the clowns

Only the clowns, only the clowns