This prompt directed that we take a line or lines from a favorite song or poem and link them into a different poem. I chose lines from Basic Space by The xx and jacked the title. But I used themes from the song Desert Island by Mansions on the Moon.

BASIC SPACE

Basic space, open air,

freckled knuckles

and soft skin.

Decayed bones add

salt to sand

as you grind your teeth

back and forth,

back and forth.

I pull your face up

as you try to drown

your lungs in scar tissue

and cheap bleach

and you roll your head

against the bathtub wall,

back and forth,

back and forth.

The sun cuts out and

your deep sea cold

coils inside, while my

broken bones shake,

back and forth,

back and forth.

Love from Pullman,

The Blonde and The Bullshit