We move fast, keeping our speed up. We need to break the hold of this angry summer. Foot down, pushing that pedal to the floor, eating up the blacktop in a vain race; as if we could change our attitude. We said "Fuck it!" and blew past every gas station; knowing this was a … Continue reading The Great-Blue-Forever
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Muse
A trap was set with the very best of intent to catch us now. How could we forget? They never saw us coming from the west. We took the long way around; no one expected this... ...give me a second... ...I lost my train of thought, but not my mind; at least, not entirely. … Continue reading Muse
The Escape Artist
We created all of this. We thought our needs had called for it. Convinced ourselves to eat the lie and drink the tears of suicides. The look in our hollow eyes, like stickmen stuck in better times. We thought we won, but then we died, with voices raised up to the sky. I … Continue reading The Escape Artist
Hello, Sky…
I used to be five miles high, my eyes saw far and wide. Head in the clouds, clouds in my mind. Finally found some ground, came down like a landslide. That’s the trouble with the Earth, its surface is all rocks and the oceans are no better, all hindsight and afterthoughts. This looked like … Continue reading Hello, Sky…
Dream With me
This state of mind remains falling from grace each day, but in the night it shines; dreams the world away. And for a little while I smile, 'cause the world it can't touch me, I close my eyes real tight and my mind it is released. Awake life - lives and dies, grating - … Continue reading Dream With me
Keeps Dragging Me Back
When I fall - all - of the colors drain. Eyes of grey - oh, so plain. No great erase. Weight or pain - gone, as long as I let it take me away - beyond myself to where all points meet and I escape. I run here or there, in the end it … Continue reading Keeps Dragging Me Back