Hoodoo Voodoo (& The Crazy Dead Lady)

Mother, you dead thing you

I swear you've gone mad

I've seen the ghost of his

Smile settle on your lips

You say his skull grins at you

I've seen you swallow a rock

Gallop around the yard at night

Naked, except for your laugh

You say fear tickles your throat

Cough it out or you'll choke

(to second death)

Your blood mingles in my veins

Yours and his

Yours is madness

His is deadness

How compatible

Third wife is a charm.

Mother, all your men die

By accident in cars

I've seen you brew potions

(with their bones)

Dance in the street during construction

Naked, except your laugh

Grandma says slam the door 'til it sticks

Dead things can live with you

The only time he ever

 Left you was to go die

You watch his smile settle on my lips

Your blood mingles in my veins

Yours and his

Yours is forgiveness

His is forgetfulness

How compatible

Second chance is a curse.

Mother, you leave every fortnight

The ghosts say they have seen you

Swirling like clouds of dust on top

Of his grave and sometimes

Between the Nile and the Red Sea

They should have built him

A double-corpse coffin

You sleep alone

(on a double bed)

You and he won't leave alone

Not me, not each other

Your blood mingles in my veins

Yours and his

Yours is loneliness

His is absence

How disastrous

First child is a murder.