Baby's Breath-Otep

[ti:Baby's Breath] [ar:Otep] [al:Atavist] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Baby's Breath - Otep [00:07.68]The soft sound of snow crunching [00:10.60]Underfoot gives me comfort [00:11.83] [00:16.49]Her building is at the end of the block [00:18.93] [00:21.66]She lives on the north side [00:23.40] [00:24.38]Bottom floor Middle apartment [00:26.35] [00:29.08]I see her: 1 2 3 4 5 steps [00:34.72] [00:36.56]Wrong key Lock clicks She drops her [00:43.56] [00:44.57]Coat and scarf in the entry and [00:47.79] [00:48.47]Kicks off those vixen shoes [00:50.80] [00:52.01]She shuffles to the kitchen and pours [00:54.66]A glass of scotch (I am inside) [01:01.34] [01:04.29]She lights a cigarette and blows [01:06.19]The smoke over the match (She doesn't notice) [01:11.55] [01:14.43]The gray smog rises from her [01:16.84]Lips like a cremation furnace [01:18.46] [01:24.26]The simple elegance of this quiet [01:26.82] [01:27.95]Moment is almost irresistible [01:29.68] [01:33.61](But I wait) [01:34.67] [01:37.79]She slugs back the scotch [01:39.89] [01:40.58]Finishes her smoke and ashes it [01:43.20]In the sink She unties her hair [01:47.93] [01:49.01]And enters the hallway past the [01:53.23]Childless bedroom with the empty [01:55.14]Crib past the altar coated in wax [02:00.53] [02:01.93]Like a wedding cake and the tiny [02:06.84]Packages of meat dead flowers [02:09.47] [02:12.41]And baby's breath [02:13.16] [02:15.61]She enters the bathroom where [02:19.86]She undresses She sits on the [02:24.30] [02:24.89]Edge of the bath Her body [02:28.02]Folded in half heavy tits hanging [02:34.21] [02:35.01]Like mushy stalactites over her [02:37.14]Lap (Oh precious) She closes her [02:44.91]Eyes and holds her head as if it [02:48.89]Might float away [02:50.07] [02:53.97]For a moment my thoughts drift [02:56.61]Again this time to the hammer [03:00.97]I am holding The handle is [03:05.28]Smooth as bone the forged steel [03:09.73]Head is heavy and I feel powerful [03:15.48] [03:19.46]She reaches for the faucet [03:21.67]And I snap back to the moment [03:23.73] [03:24.41]Bubbles brim the edge of the [03:26.85]Tub Her fingers check the water [03:30.11]Temperature and I am ready [03:33.72] [03:37.84]I move behind her She doesn't [03:40.78]Hear I swing the hammer She [03:45.30]Doesn't see I crack her skull [03:49.92] [03:50.44]She's in the tub Face down I am [03:58.14]Drowning her mashing her head [04:01.73]To the bottom knifing the claw of [04:04.61]The hammer into her spine and [04:06.71]Ribs over and over and over and [04:11.49]Over and over and over and over [04:17.02]And over and [04:18.88] [04:25.09]Her body stops pretending to [04:27.85]Care and surrenders as it is supposed [04:33.93]To just to be sure I press [04:41.19]Hard keeping her head beneath [04:45.69]The bloody water a few moments [04:48.24]More Her neck snaps her nose [04:55.56]Breaks and her face collapses [05:00.44]Against the bottom of the tub I [05:07.67]See my reflection in the mirror [05:10.46] [05:11.64]And soapy foam has formed a half [05:14.48]Smile over the black nylon mask I [05:18.75]Am wearing [05:19.36] [05:24.56]I lean to her The water glistens [05:30.06]Like glass I hover over the [05:38.35]Surface soft breath causing tiny [05:43.21]Quakes and whisper "I have done [05:51.99]To you what nature has done to me " [05:57.86] [06:05.81]She doesn't reply [06:06.88] [06:12.48]I stand and turn off the light [06:17.20] [06:23.28]The room is dark and empty [06:26.13] [06:29.37]Just like I am now