Key in the lock Hallway carpet breathing slow Numbers on the door keep changing Like they know Ice in the glass Melting into tiny mouths Wallpaper flowers blinking Watching every doubt Is this a hotel Or a held breath? Ceiling drips Spelling out your death Welcome back to room 14 0 8 Where the walls remember every ache Every door you open Is the same mistake Check in Check into your own personal hell You never check out The mirror writes your name Backwards in a shout Welcome back to room 14 0 8 Clock bleeds red Ninety minutes Then again Time folds like a paper crane Drowning in your hands Phone on the desk Rings with a child’s laugh Voice made of broken glass Asking Dad You back? Is this your sorrow Or a staged play? Bedspread crawling With things you tried to say Welcome back to room 14 0 8 Where the walls remember every ache Every door you open Is the same mistake Check in Check into pure fukking hell You never check out The mirror writes your name Backwards in a shout Welcome back to room 14 0 8 The window is an eye Blinking out the sea Your cigarette ash Spells “you are me” Fire turns to snowfall Snowfall turns to rain You’re reading from a Bible But the pages are your brain Welcome back to room 14 0 8 Where the walls remember every ache Every door you open Is the same mistake Check in Check into your own mental abyss You never check out The mirror writes your name Backwards in a shout Welcome back to room 14 0 8 (welcome back) Welcome back to room 14 0b8 where you never check out where you never check out suicide by insanity murder by your own mind your mine room 14 0 8
