Disfigured Isolation

	Headaches, coughing fits, neurasthenics and saint vitus dancers
	To you who wheeze and sneeze and bawl
	Get out from my bed I cannot name you
	Stumbling forward on cracked hooves
	Who’d have thought I’d grow up and grow horns
	They make monsters wait in line like other men
	Have you ever met anyone?
	To hold something my hands could not crush
	No, no medicine
	Planned wound, opens like a wet flower
	Stitches slip and won’t hold
	Find life even here
	When I must feed my python hair
	Am I not deserving of love?
	Who would pay to see a bird bleed, anyone?

	Headaches, coughing fits, neurasthenics and saint vitus dancers
	To you who wheeze and sneeze and bawl
	Get out from my bed I cannot name you
	Stumbling forward on cracked hooves
	Who' d have thought I' d grow up and grow horns
	They make monsters wait in line like other men
	Have you ever met anyone?
	To hold something my hands could not crush
	No, no medicine
	Planned wound, opens like a wet flower
	Stitches slip and won' t hold
	Find life even here
	When I must feed my python hair
	Am I not deserving of love?
	Who would pay to see a bird bleed, anyone?