The Oldness - Xiu Xiu

Something wrong

Will molest you in drug stupor

On onslaught, constant and dry

Web of oldness

Makes creaking timbrel sounds

Beneath the grass, beyond the sky

Teasing dirty furry

Abominations

Will lick you awake and eat your weight

Before and after the words

Get down, put your arms under your body

The oldness

I dreamt that I was aloft

On beating wing

A sound unlike any bird’s

Out of the corner of my eye

I saw a great bat’s wing

Oh, the oldness