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What a Shame/
The windows down
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Warm sticky air
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Salty sweat
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Kody’s beside me in the truck
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She has a hatchet
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Fire Fueled by Fear of Death
Its science versus religion
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And cognitive thought versus deranged fantasy
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Wars fought for love w
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"Too Much TV"
We read “Captain Hook’s collection of psalms,
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And other songs to sing along to.”
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Nothing better
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“Always Onward!”
Walk with me,
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Through the night.
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Such blissful glimmering,
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Promise above.
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My hand in yours,
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"Children of..."
Fall brings the cold.
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Where did all the children wander off to?
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Better scoop them up quickly, /
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Tonight We Got Drinks/
A blank page of hope cracked like porcelain
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The light fades and darkness seeps through
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Crumpled
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"Playing the role of dog in heat"
Aphrodite - Queen bitch,
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Slouching.
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Elbows resting on glass countertop -
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Go fuck yourself.
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A
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"Howling to Mother Moon"
It was Saturday,
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And you said God was with us.
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So, we drove as fast as possible-
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Into blisteri
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Why wouldn’t you waste death/
Floating
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The ceiling is my bed
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A dusty breath of reality hits the floor
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Six a.m. alarm and a b
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"Combustion"
The streetlights are never lonely.
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Cars always got a companion or two.
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Feet to the street.
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No
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