a spoken poem before This
Time Imperfect off of
AFI's 2003 Sing the Sorrow. Gibson Casian, Jade Puget and Smith Puget's younger haft
brother reads the first part, Davey Havok reads the second part, and Hans Wold reads the last part. It is known to creep out and sadden listeners.
Spoken Word:We held hands on the last night on
earth.Our mouths filled with
dust, we kissed in the fields and under trees, screaming like gods, bleeding
dark into the leaves.It was empty on the edge of town, but we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river.So we walked through the waste where the road curved into the sea and shattered seasons lay, and the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease.In our
cancer of passion you said,
Death is a midnight
runner.
The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide.We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of starts that wore like an antique wedding dress.The echoes of the past
broke the hearts of the unborn as the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop.The few insets skittered away in hopes of a better pastime.I kissed you at the apex of maelstrom and asked if you would accompany me in a quick fall, but you made me realize that my ticket wasn'
t good for two.I rode alone.
You said, The cinders are falling like snow.There is poetry in despair, and we sang with unrivaled
beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence.Of
blue and grey. Strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved our names in the flesh of city.The sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon and the darkness is a mystery of curves and lines.Still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the
earth like a message.