Colossus

Your mother hung herself in the National Theater

When she was four months pregnant with your sister

Who would have been thirteen years old today

Does that make you feel any less alone in the world?

Your dad, I'm sure, he tried his best

He thought you'd be better off living with your grandmother

He didn't realize that she had already given up

Baby, your family, they are just losers

I've become such a wolf around you

My thoughts go dark and dull, out of focus

Have no peace in my mind

Because you

You've touched me

The screech owls are going insane outside my house

It is the season for trouble and self destruction

All of my friends, they are falling apart

But not me, I'm in control

Remember the exquisite corpse that we created together

We laughed at the time, it seemed so impenetrable

But reading it now I think I understand

What it is that we are trying to steal from each other

I've become such a wolf around you

My thoughts go dark and dull, out of focus

Have no peace in my mind

Because you

You've touched me