Creatures Void Of Form Bound To Crossin' Lines

he took one long jukebox look but dropped a dozen palos and punched play all when and once he noticed they was all about leavin' and just like that with a settle in stop trot all over was a flood wave come floodin' like blood inside liquid all overs. next time to nothing he was swimmin' deep drowned was heavin' a lighter flicker back-a-forth between fire and smoke and who knows what all else when he heard her walkin' through the side door. she sat down like shrimp boat lemonade with a smirk eatin' grin and a packa' double 45's but looked like she was bus-waitin' sick or somethin' so he couldn'a help but askin' her what was on her mind. so she said suh-lowly,
-i been thinkin' 'bout short-timin' it outta here someplace nicer someplace warmer someplace another place anyplace understand?
-you ain't gotta tell me nor twice, he said. i been thinkin' 'bout sinkin' this iron home for quite some time.
-say that you'll stay.
-i promise.
he grabbed her face wise for all that could ever come next when next was an imperative lost not quite found. like blood inside. and for the very fleeting ever so brief, a next was an almost. and in that there was flowered the bloemen of the next thousand years. until the songs ran out and the time like brickforce came crashing back into lake of fire burn eternal.
-you know i can't stay, he said, a fervent regret only for sayin'. i got someplace anyplace allaplace else.
-you promised me, sunshine.
-but this ship has taken me so far away.
-i know. and i miss you more than you'll ever.
and in that instant he remembered that he had already left her standing coastal seafront rainstorm adifferent so far away.
he dropped the match.
he waited the eternity it takes.
he raised up a felt farewell take care.
and then, like blood inside, felt flames a'risen all over.