26 March 2011

august 41, '25




                           so much can happen in the course of a lie
         the time that it takes to finally decide    that the time you had wasted         
                           wasn’t          really                     time
                                     that the feelings   you tasted    were
                  parsley    sage   rosemary        rhyme

more is coming
              best you can do
is stand in                   take swings     be human    be    true

i can get my feelings hurt from one hundred yards
             just the color of a car
in the shadow of that scar

i’m pretending
        since 1979
since boots and breaking lines
                           since running out of time

when i feel the peak this early in the week
              i ought to be looking
i ought to know the trough is coming

why don't i ever see it coming?

              having trouble getting my breath      back from the room      
                                           once we've talked it to death

gurjoat said the people here like to talk
the people here like to talk



i take those words and i throw 'em at you
to compensate for ordinarybluesandbadnews
                   greatnight      too


        watched them fly  watched them fall
   counted seconds  didn't hurt         at all

and it makes no difference which way you smile
         so to be noted     been that way for a while
 you bought my opinions    you handed them in
they were different  from then         different from when?


are you still alive?  can you still breathe?
                    do you feel the things that you want to feel?
is happiness forced or        simply conceived?
do you have enough left to be taking   swings?

                                 i wonder where the avarice lives
why it follows me        what's left to give

she took every piece that i wanted      or missed
she stood stooped   bent   swept those things off a cliff

last night

   frank folger      
                  to his home  
                                    slowly tread

         found the sutures in their stead
       put a        bullet to his head
         he found the future there

 instead



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