Monthly Archives: October 2010

so desperate, i need some respite, in this place of war
i need a place to say some things i haven’t said before
a place to say the names of the bones behind the door
voices echo in this head space as you creep across the floor
just like that broken record i picked up discount in the bins
only one side ever plays and the last song never ends
the last word gets repeated ’til i lift the needle from the skin
mixing metaphors with my dopamine, like whiskey with my gin
should we exit like we entered with no input from our friends?
or give them all one more chance to peer around the bend?
if this ship is really sinking, they could be our rising wind
can’t help but thinking they’d love another chance to play pretend
maybe in this pool of listlessness, they’d be quick to condescend
can’t comprehend why she didn’t leave him long before she did
of her own volition, no contrition and no cognition turned to shit
it was painful to watch her dying from all those wounds she hid