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I shut my mouth Cause they are the law And i am alone Ohhh, the boys in blue Have decided i need a good talking to Though i’ve done nothing wrong He is less than polite I guess i’m not his type And while he has his fun The whole time he has his hand [...]
You broke me bodily The heart ain’t the half of it And I’ll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way In fact I’m laughing less in general But I learned a lot at my own funeral And I knew you’d be the death of me So I guess that’s the price [...]
been through and through this i know just how it goes you’ll have no idea you’ll have no need to know cuz i will make your body grow wings and take flight i will erase sound i will erase light and this vague little smile is my all-purpose expression the meaning of which i’ll leave [...]
squint your eyes and look closer I’m not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some and I’m beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head cause someday you’re going to get hungry and eat most of the words [...]
i don’t keep much stuff around i value my portability but i will say that i have saved every letter you ever wrote to me the one you left on my windshield outside of that little motel is in the pocket of my old gig bag from back when life was more soft shell letters [...]
second intermission anticipation you know the third act small talk drops out of the play you’re standing in the lobby tightening your tourniquet waiting for it waiting for it and then the bell sounds and the lights flash and there’s all these questions milling around and there’s no time to ask no bliss for little [...]
you cease to smell the steel plant after you’ve lived here for a while smoke is snow is ash are leaves that blow through the air aloft and our houses dim their siding to the same soot grey style and we hang our laundry out on sundays when they turn the furnaces off and everybody’s [...]
back back back in the back of your mind are you learning an angry language, tell me boy boy boy are you tending to your joy or are you just letting it vanquish back back back in the dark of your mind where the eyes of your demons are gleamin are you mad mad mad [...]
sleep walking through the all-nite drug store baptized in fluorescent light i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right and every pop song on the radio is suddenly speaking to me art may imitate life but life imitates t.v. ‘cuz you’ve been gone exactly two weeks two weeks and [...]
no you didn’t just leave i actually kicked you out i couldn’t hardly believe that the words came out my mouth you couldn’t hardly believe what you heard yourself discuss as you packed up all your things and you said goodbye to us tell me, what is in the way in the way of my [...]
she was cuffed to the truth like the truth was a chair with a bright interrogation light in her eyes. and her conscience with a cigarette just stood there, waiting for her to crack, waiting for her to cry. they scampered through the room like a roach across a wall. yeah, they made her skin [...]
I am wading through the waters wanting you. I don’t dare look cause i’ll see right through. I tried to warm myself to sleep, but now i’m wading way too deep. I can’t scream my sirens any higher, cause i’m bound to find a fire. I can smell your closeness though you hide in your [...]
up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god’s work isn’t done by god it’s done by people up up up up up up points the fingers of the trees the lumberjacks with their bloody axes are on their knees and just when you think that you’ve got enough enough [...]
cradling the softest, warmest part of you in my hand feels like a little baby bird fallen from the nest i think that your body is something i understand i think that i’m happy, i think that i’m blessed i’ve got a lack of inhibition i’ve got a loss of perspective i’ve had a little [...]
Worthy you think you’re not worthy i’d have to say i agree i’m not worthy of you you’re not worthy of me which of us is deserving look at the human race the whole planet at arm’s length and we don’t deserve this place what good is a poker face when you’ve got an open [...]