Vaccination Scar

So the chemistry's set

And I'm not the saddest cheerleader to forget the American word

For the gang in the head

That dwindles to no members when

The mystery's met

The sky looks threatened, heading home in the dust

Singing, "Life is for getting

Good enough for the frivolous"

One thing I remember is

This tear on your bare shoulder

This little silver boulder

This slowly falling star

We're rolling, so what

Never getting older, where the moon-shocked curtains part

At the start of enough

A tear dropped in a vaccination scar

I'll tell you if I'm able

That is, I'll tell you like it is

It went down like a bad card table

Like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Swimming on a bit

Stop and treading water as the sun assimilated the words

For lighthouse fire

Burning down to embers' end

The mystery met

The sky just-reddened, heading home under dusk

Is life just forgetting

Another word for frivilous

And little silver boulders

And silence from Mars

For the heart of enough

For a tear dropped in a vaccination scar

Wherever you are

Scar