Vox candida.

storage bin the choir kid
pack him up when singing's useless
he has two arms of scary scars,
cellophane betwixt the twain.

you wouldn't think his indoor skin
would ever drag barbed wire fence
alabaster getting red again embarrassed.

packing popcorn puffing out
of his mouth flat rate rabies
sent to Rockwell sang,
hell not swell don't tell.

senseless, skin & mouth numbed,
eyes & ears & nostrils sewn shut...

...the sweetest lot. baby boy sings new notes
being born into invented views of mind life.

you wouldn't ever know his lies
forever guarding grinding gears
just beneath the skin of fruit.