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Drexler_McStyles
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since 2002-11-18

Posts 195
Venice, Ca

0 posted 2003-05-18 12:00 PM

you walk down the alley
beeline for the market
a couple passes by with their unity engaged
putting fisticuffs on your stable gaze
leaves you wishing
you were buying arsenic
instead of filler for the rum
I never wanted to be inspired in this way
too many hours spent
in those clutches
back in the dark ages
all their apologetic stumblings
lead you down
into the cellar with the broken lightbulb
no need to hear her out
in one version or another
youve already that speech
theyre all the same
and the reasons why…
usually something to do with the old guard
a renewal of vows
(born in the cemetery)
the sure thing
that those in the know
warned you about
assured you long and hard
was coming in
(and not to show)
but no, always the longshot for you
never been one to measure the distance
between reality
and where you were laying down your arms

finding it a little hard
to sit here
and be surprised about any of this
never had one yet
that led me into light
instead of the tar pits
watching me as I go…
away
I just must say
that love is a fools game
better to indulge the flesh
and burn the photos
never looking back
to the cowards and their malicious innocence
we don’t hate you
how could we
we just hate the way
you make us feel
and all the hidden costs that go along with it

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

1 posted 2003-05-18 12:09 PM

Nice slice, well done.

There is an old saying, old in light of today's more exotic rapidly fatal diseases; it is, "Better to have failed your Wasserman test than never to have loved at all."

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced