It was wise to turn away.

The van in the woods may very

Well not be 

Abandoned.

Then again,

The reaper may be sleeping.

Go ahead and bet your life on it.

It was wise to turn away.

The people in the trees

Are unimpressed

By patches.

Skater-death aesthetics get you

Nowhere.

Get your ass on back to

Hollywood.

Take off your vegan

Training wheels.

Sleep inside the devil's oven.

The line ends back there at

Hollywood & Death Trip,

Heroin & Sunset,

Beverly & Jones,

So stay away or I will

Reinvent the payphone,

I will utilize your bones,

Use my sickle for a nickel, 

And call myself a taxi 

From the old familiar

Cain & Abel crossroads.

It was wise to walk away.

Don't come back until 

You're one of us.

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