How Long - Palehound

Melissa floats on her back

Exhales into that marble sky

Three months of cops and blacktops

Turn to air with every sigh

We’re spitting pits into the grass now

How long can a sweetness last now

How long 'til this is the past we can’t believe we’re looking back on?

Someone screams «a water snake!»

It’s slicing the skin of the lake

With many others in its wake

How many were there?

I can’t say

We strip our suits off for the day

How long can a sweetness stay

How long 'til we look back and say

We can’t believe we lived that way

The storm corrals us to our cars

Lik a wet jaw snapping herding dog

With a crack the lightning starts

And bits of hail bounc off the tar

We’re driving cringing with every pelt

How long 'til a sweetness melts

How long 'til there rings a bell

How long 'til there rings a bell

How long 'til there rings a bell

That signals us

Return from hell