petals heavy already falling once you opened shameless wide drinking sun like cheap red wine now the edges curl black and tired like letters nobody bothered to sign glorious wilt, glorious wilt crown to compost, no guilt glorious wilt, glorious wilt beautiful rot, born to die stem bends like a spine giving up green bruises into muddy brown every vein a dried-up river carrying nothing back to the crown crumble scatter return to dirt mouth open wide crumble scatter return no grave can hold your pride last color bleeds out slow and wrong magenta choking on its own tongue you were never meant to last the week just long enough to make the ruin sweet there is no tragedy here only correct mathematics bloom is the loan decay collects the debt and I cheer every payment glorious wilt glorious wilt from perfume to powder to ash and silt glorious wilt glorious wilt the most honest thing this dirt ever built glorious wilt glorious wilt raise the black flag high and still glorious wilt glorious wilt death never looked so fucking beautiful
