How'd I get here? What is this -

Tattooed on my stiffening wrist?

I taste sulfur smoking upwards

Whirling towards my loose teeth...



I'm so tired... I can't sleep...

Just outside they wait for me



I can't fix these things - these empty dry legs

I've stopped bleeding, there's only violence in me



I have sisters safely in their homes

Far from this, thick with kids not nearly grown



Groaning forth from everyone outside

Colorless hopelessness from blackened eyes



I take with me the only thing I've learned

Lovers leave, fighters lose, all things will burn



Burning fear - the poison in my bones

Paralyzed, horrified to be alone



A lonely drain on everyone I know

Oregon! Oregon - my home sweet -----