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Brothers

I am only shame without a number,

no parlour to your tricks & greed.

I hold within something that slumbers

and when i'm awake it tortures me.

This feast of heathenestic ideals

no room for sense unless it bleeds.

I am the fear of no tomorrow

and of no sleep until next week.

A place for counting all the numbers

add them up to feed the sheep.

Maybe Jim will go home early

or maybe Jak will sleep alone

Maybe all the things we think we know

we really,

truly

don't.

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nicholas-james-berlincourt
American
Published
Oct 15, 2012
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