the temperature dropped too fast dry air sucked my skin out i clawed at my face fastened blankets around me only to suffocate in sweat it was too cold to let you in it was too cold to let the cat in it was too cold to let the air in it was too cold to let the cops in it was too cold to let the cleaners in it was too cold to let the next tenants in too cold to anything but watch to hang, suspend, cocoon in amber lost in famous walls buried in a swamp fleeing the perpetual victimhood of the western soul in its garden of earthly denial to hell with poverty i'll get drunk on your mind