JOYLESS KINGDOM: POEMS / OCTOBER 2020 VIA VULTURE HOUSE PRESS

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I WILL NOT JOIN YOUR CULT

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In the crush of midnight space 
We dissolve into the shadows 
It’s our escape 
I keep my hands pressed against the light of you 
As you rise into the bone of the moon 

It’s a heaven sickness 
It’s a true madness 

When my remains remain this way 
Will you wait 'til dark for me? 

In the rush of anxious blood 
We’ve made a trophy out of the sun 
When the world doesn’t want you 
I’ll pull the planets down to you 

May my remains remain this way

Remains

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Coyotes in the boneyards of my dreams

Coyotes

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I’ll be your victim 
Another stranger in love 
I don’t care where we’re going 
But can I ride with you? 
I really don’t mind standing as the city moves 
Outside of time 
Through invaded hearts 
With teenage names carved 
In the subway cars 

Girls on the subway 
I’ll be your victim 

It's in your bloodline 
The cheekbones of a skyline 
 Your pin-up pose 
As you stand alone 
Makes me want to sell my gold 

Will you take me underground? 

I’ll be your evidence

Girls On The Subway

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You're the real thing, baby 
And you make me wanna get high 

I don’t have much 
But I’d fight to the death for your touch 
I spent my last cent today 
I hope you don’t mind I stole this rose from a grave 

Tonight will you possess me? 
Will you make me feel invincible? 
Let’s get fucked up and lose our minds 
‘Cause all we’ve got is time 

You’re the real thing, baby 
And you make me wanna get high 

I don’t have everything 
All I have are my dreams 
But I’ll let you climb with me 
Possess me 
Oh, you make me feel unlike myself 

Let’s leave this town behind 
Driving with the windows down 
We’ll make it where we make it 
We'll make it when we make it

The Real Thing

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Standing into the night 
 I’m gonna reach inside  
To find you, to find  

My life is a ghost town without you  

There’s something in the walls  
A beating in the floor  
Your heart is all I wish to hold 
 It’s a distance I can’t close 
 A beating in the floor  

My life is a ghost town without you 
 My love is a ghost town without you 

 Stranded with the gold at the core of the flame 

Ghost Town Without You

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We come from a family of soldiers 
We are the poets who drive on empty 
The moon outside our reach has atrophied 

We come from a family of scavengers 
We are the birds competing for the bones 
The moon hangs low tonight, so alone 

I’ve spent so many nights on the cliffs in your eyes 
I’ve slept so many times on the cliffs 
It’s ritual

Ritual

JOYLESS KINGDOM: POEMS — ARRIVING OCTOBER 2020 
Writing in The Atlantic, Pitchfork, BBC Travel, Penthouse, Atlas Obscura, and VICE.

shane cashman

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