Here lies Billy the Kid, here lies his gun
Here lies The Light of the World,
As quick as the dead,
As gone as the sun;
Raised like a tent now
Where heads bow, are bent down to a gypsy moth roosting home
A heart to be consumed
By hunger alone
Here lies the way I knew how to harbor my mind
There rolls a ship of the sea,
Steady as she goes,
Determined to climb:
To fly like a kite above
The near and the near enough,
Tugging your arms through their sleeves
A heart needing only to feel
What hunger believes
What I loved loved me back, let me go
Met my stare, heard me out,
Sang to me
What I couldn't know;
Here lies the best of us,
And here stand the rest of us: dying, trying not to let on
A heart surrendering everything hunger has won
Here lies Billy the Kid, here lies his gun
Here lies The Light of the World,
As quick as the dead,
As gone as the sun
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