Brink

I know it looks like the spiders have spread their legs
and are treading iris in your grey,
but in reality, this is a slipknot that
will shorten every song on our playlist
by twenty seconds.
We will be taken in, cuffed for our crimes
and our conversations during commercial breaks.
The stars will spread out
like skin cancer
and that night you hold so tightly to
will become just another back-alley mural
painted over.