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Daniel Wilson Sep 2014
On the right track never tasted quite right.
Remind me again what I should have done?
Usually, a smile or two for the accomplished
brings my morality back around.
She's always fleeting though.
A sip of coffee here, a few plans made there -
all these THINGS take up limited space.
There's a dream where everything gets finished,
floats up and checks itself off the list.
Actions speak louder than words,
reap what you sow,
early bird gets the worm,
but I like cream in my coffee and the snooze button.
Daniel Wilson May 2014
A year to wait
But not one of those stagnant,
thick-netted *******.
The rushed one,
like the cafe girl
who knows he's coming so orders ahead
This is the real rush, the real lush rush -
Your potted and steaming sewer
4 am blacktop
photographic backdrop
waiting-to-do-your-*****-work rush, and it knows you will want that.
You can't trick the city, but you can trick time
Trick it till it thinks. The girl at the cafe thinks too.
Think it through, she thinks.
I like the way her blue (not her skirt's blue), the blue she made, waves in the wind like it's the last thing swaying, that she can call home. She had a home once,
But this isn't about the rushed girl in blue, is it?
No. This, this thing we have here is about the rush, my friend!
that dreaded coiled-stomach rush that only happens at the last second, of the last minute
We can trick thoughtful time, never can we hide from the finality of our deciding moment!!
Girl blue has made her choice, too soon perhaps -
But rot yourself down to your last second,
feel the swell in your gut,
and choose.
You still have time.
Daniel Wilson Jan 2014
Let me show you my alcoholic slumber
Waver with me down tilted, flat stairs
Lose your memories for the sake of the night
Laugh away coherence, wake in your pants
By all means spill
Spill it on you, on them
Spill your emotions, let loose
Never regret one, but the collective
Try to stop, but keep going
These are the woes, the woohoos
The alcoholic slumber
Daniel Wilson Oct 2013
Bars stricken with low tide,
low solitude, and dead eyes

You see their stripes, outlandish appeal.

When a bar is laid flat, we guess and we chat.
Liquid is the vibe.
Daniel Wilson Sep 2013
I've given up my sin, what I thought I knew
for something sweeter
something new
Daniel Wilson Jun 2013
T.
Don't crave the shaven wood
it falls far too swiftly,
edited and with predictable descent.

No living soul, or so I've learned,
can speak bold thoughts, but I fall as well.
Daniel Wilson Jun 2013
Here he has freedom—flight!
mixed up with glamour and excitement—travel, luxury, and escape:
These are the wool of bat and tongue of dog that flavors the hell broth of the alcoholic soul.
- Clancy Martin
http://www.vice.com/read/the-secret-drinkers-handbook-0002456-v19n12
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