the place where daddy goes to drink
is filled with maggots, novels, cheese
a woman smiling on her knees
with the roar of trains returning home

the man wishes to be alone
don't follow him into the ground
there digging now is not allowed
as it disturbs the sleeping dead

daddy has a severed head
don't kiss his eyes, he's going blind
flipping through questions, failing to find
the conversation that leads to bed