Vacant Blues

Poet: Urayoán Noel

Role: Composer / Video Edit

Year: 2020

Vacant Blues

I swallow a pill but there is no cure
A city map won’t get me where I want to go

Scaling the scaffold,
mindless of the mall,
unaware of driveways
where housewives dodge the wrecking ball,
I crawl outside these vacant blues

and into the contours of your eyes