Fretful since the day we met
Strung up with strands of blonde hair
Just hanging around
Palm reader, you lied
When you said that the One would come along
Palm reader, you lied
You were staring right at my love life
Maybe we should just fake our own deaths
It’s much too cold waiting in the wings
Benjamin Blake was born in the July of 1985, and grew up in the small town of Eltham, New Zealand. He is the author of the novel, The Devil’s Children, the poetry and prose collections, A Prayer for Late October, Southpaw Nights, Reciting Shakespeare with the Dead, and Standing on the Threshold of Madness, as well as the forthcoming split, All the Feral Dogs of Los Angeles (with Cole Bauer). Find more of his work at http://www.benjaminblake.com