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Description
black bones beating
on the basement wall
the boiler sweats
and groans
Cutter drags
heavy chains
across the dirt
floor digging up
rusty nails
his face boils

Cutter's daughter Mercy
doesn't care
what he's doing
down there
she's at the bottom
of a bottle
with her dead mother
they talk
of families
that grow so large
that things become
thin
and something
must be done

Cutter's behind
the padlocked door
making circles
in the dirt
with the thighbone
of a Great Dane
with a note
duct-taped to it
on which is written
no baby johnson

Description
black bones beating
on the basement wall
the boiler sweats
and groans
Cutter drags
heavy chains
across the dirt
floor digging up
rusty nails
his face boils

Cutter's daughter Mercy
doesn't care
what he's doing
down there
she's at the bottom
of a bottle
with her dead mother
they talk
of families
that grow so large
that things become
thin
and something
must be done

Cutter's behind
the padlocked door
making circles
in the dirt
with the thighbone
of a Great Dane
with a note
duct-taped to it
on which is written
no baby johnson