My First Kiss at the Public Execution

The carnival's glossy ghosts

zebra-painted horses parade

the cotton candy prostitutes

caramel apple corpses singing:

"Just this way to the neon orange gallows!

Tonight we tie the noose around the killer's collar!

Watch him play his wind pipe organ!"

Just five dollars to see a face explode, to see a man strung up by his throat.

Come one! Come all!

If you look close enough

you'll see death's machinery exposed.

So won't you hold me closer

just one more minute

until the executions over?

just one more minute

Won't you behead another

c'mon we're waiting

won't you shock and entertain us?

The hangman selling tickets to the sparkling death scene.

Tonight we watch the rope choke a conscience clean.

See it up close, see it in person!

His lips spun like revolving fun house doors as the hush kisses at our neck nape.

"Any final words for your loving audience?"

says the man with the dazzling sapphire cape.

So won't you hold me closer

just one more minute

until the executions over?

just one more minute

Won't you behead another

c'mon we're waiting

Won't you shock and entertain us? (2x)

Until the end of the world?

Snap, snap, snap goes the neck.

"Rah, rah, rah!" the audience.

Black, black, black goes his face.

The sky spreads like thighs inside lace. (2x)