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Mar 2012 · 788
Waiting for a Train
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Waiting for a train in the courtyard
Wait to go insane I’m gonna go far  
Away from this train in the courtyard
I’ve planned to be in pain only thus far

I’ve been studying
I’ve been swallowed
I’ve been studying
I’ve been swallowed
Mar 2012 · 2.2k
Righteous Monoxide
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Righteous monoxide filled the lugs of apartheid
Read the palm, explained what could be
Read the psalm for breathless trifling  

Redefine
Recognize, please
Rewind
Mar 2012 · 591
I'll be Right
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
I’ll be right
Within
The Isle of Wright
Begin
The sacrificial lamb’s ascension

There we’ll dance
Because
The last of chance
We must
Continue the journey on foot
Mar 2012 · 822
Chewing on a Cigarette
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Chewing on a cigarette
Ordained by speech and greed
In a race to the plateaued cliff
Sir Logos reclaimed the lead
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Take back your prize my weary men!
Bask in the Sack of Rome!
There’s women and wine
What’s yours
What’s mine
Not to mention the chest-full of gold
Mar 2012 · 482
A Passing Phase
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Wake up in the sunlight hour
You sense the warm and feel the power
And know that when you want to leave
You can

All is well and all is bright
You wonder of the lasting night
And speak of shells and cuddle fish
Aloud

I know
  That it’s all
      A passing phase
I know
  That it’s all
      A passing phrase
Mar 2012 · 885
Obscure are the Things
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
In true form Potential energy
Resides in residential memory  

Obscure are the things that hang down from ceilings
Pout is the mouth scorn my pigeon-toed feelings
Send spies and magic away with said legion
Cast unto forest from behind this grey region
Mar 2012 · 910
Humane
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Intelligence is followed by ignorance
Fever followed by figurativeness
A better human
Or more humane
Never before or
Never again
Mar 2012 · 462
First Flame
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
I drew the first fire
Yes I cast the first flame
Come before now, exhausted pyre
Some yesterday became more today.
Mar 2012 · 573
Natural Form
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
There’s a glass of water on a dark wooden desk
I taste a little then spill the rest
I slept for an hour but awoke from the storm
There I coil to the window in my natural form
I touch the shade as the velvet of Earth, and
I count the steps to this point from my birth, and
There stand I, aware but detached, as
There could we, but our lives falsely clashed
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
The Tripped and sullen Woodsman
Frustrated and calm, he stands with trees
Ominous branches, each one a soul on limb
Stranded, echoed with leaves
   The trunk either thriving or poisoned at core
With his axe the devil decides
A cut and your body will do the same
And when it falls, a mortal will die
Mar 2012 · 1.5k
Rainbow Tie-dyed Collar
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
You’ve got me waving my rainbow tie-dyed finger
You look so pretty in your bow tie woven winter
I’ve seen the monkey thumb; yes I’ve seen the splinter
And by the time I’m done I know you’ll pick the winner

The weight has lifted me; the wait is almost over
My fan has hit the tower with mountains made of clover
Stop watch on the colored face, my levels have been lowered
I know I tame the leash but the collar can’t control her

Down in front
I want to see again
Mar 2012 · 1.2k
Room #6
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Television remote in hand, sweating motel made of sand
Past wives and dollar signs were once the starfish speak now, who owns this man
Mind control of the demons he held closely only to redeem them
They return now to drain the blood and burn the coal of a lonely dreamer

Return the favor
Greet your neighbor
And tell him softly
How you never knew the damage would end up being so **** costly
She appears now from the curtain
Bear my beast of burden
Seeking redemption under the illusion that he’s just a hurt person, snuggle

Master of illusion
Wake from slumber as he chooses
Radiant thoughts, alcohol induced in tangent solutions, breathing becomes useless
Pulls himself from the comfort, indecent love
He’s seen too much hurt
As the blade from the kitchen is stained red though his plain white T-shirt

Happiness is sirens
She’s in shock from loss of iron
Anger follows questioning
And self reliance is just a time when
All that we can see
Is all our lives will be
Concern for where the wind blows just holds you back
From being free
Mar 2012 · 733
TeleCast
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Telecast and I wear my mask
I want to go but I haven’t touched shore
Emulate everyone knows
I come back more and more

Under fire the rain seems soft
Coming home I never get lost
Pixie dust ice cream truck
Paperback heart

Free will I sit still
The blessings count me so I get my fill
And I wake up in the sun dried mud
Talking to my hand

White curtain blue collar work
Stitch up my spine so my smile still smirks    
I got four kings in a jar of dirt
Waiting for a train
Mar 2012 · 574
When She Lie
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
I’m unsure if she’s right but I’m right that I’m sure I don’t know
And if the truth truly hurts then I don’t want the truth to show
I’m trapped in this bliss from the gaze that emits from the floor
When she opens the path with her light, I want to be sure

When she lie
When she lies

She tells me I’m one with manipulation of words
She kiss me goodnight, hitting me right where it hurts
I don’t know the why but the window and sky made me think
I looked at the moon and right there decided to leave

When she lie
When she lies
Mar 2012 · 803
Lurking Hermit
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Lurking hermit, corridor snake
Predator owl, behavior lake
Social depiction deficiency
“Living at sea”
When all that matters is you
                                           And me
Mar 2012 · 808
Teddy
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Innocent world please watch me sit
Politely while you crack your whip, again.
Teddy says he likes your boots,
I told him that were born to lose, again
I giggle and smirk while you strike past
Teddy says he likes my laugh, again
Innocent world please love me tight
In your monstrous arms I feel alright, again.

He see’s in color
He see’s in black
The season’s summer
The leaves are back

Innocent world please tuck me in
Relive from me my deadly sins, again
Heaven will wait for teddy too
I love him to death but that’s nothing new, again
Check the closet, don’t close the door
Please pick my night light off the floor, again
And in the morning when we wake
The shimmering sun across the lake, again
Oh innocent world please learn with me
Of past and present for eternity, again.
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
As desperate as the king might be
I want your subtle cry
The rain only gestures for
The sun and moon to collide
The changes in December tolls
To carry the souls to hell
Your touch alone can save the man
Who lies, but never tells
A child all tattooed at birth
Remains a broken sigh
Redeemed yells at Tuesday’s voice
A child, who lost her mind.
Mar 2012 · 702
A lunatic in Love
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
She calls my eyes mysterious
My therapist calls them depressed
I say she’s schizophrenic
See says she’s underdressed
They ask us how we met
She left it for me to address
“From one lunatic to the other-“
“In your mind?”
-“Be my guest.”
Mar 2012 · 550
Wax
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Wax
Can you remember?
When you were young
All the lightning and sirens and wondering aimlessly
Tell me how often did you say the names that you once called
Run to them now
They’re made out of concrete and fueled by dismantled
Repetitive sidewalks and drippings from candles, they’ll burn you alive
Speak to them now
I’d ask for a recap but your hands are shaking from
Secrets and torture the elders mistaking of fool’s gold
Clap for them now
Yes they’re misleading I honor your reprise
Stop they’re retreating we need them back into our lives!
Mar 2012 · 599
Ode to the Radio
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
The springs’ mud-love rain comfortably at rest
Leaning on, faintly, my car.
As the smell of my ex reminds me of why
Things are the way they are.
Such familiarity from a jacket
Winters crest it bares
Me, too weak to refuse.
Oh spring, so rich with kick and snare
With static
“Stones travel in two’s”

-it doesn’t matter
A coffee and cigarette silken voice
Offered me its palm
I bowed, showing my respect but still with
Haste it clapped in symbols
-I needed to learn

Jim was in the passenger seat
And Syd was in the back
We spoke of smoke and fermented things
The substance that prophets lack
What onlookers would see
Seemed like a dreadful plea
For medication and a cheap exchange of words.
Still within this car, grip tire with tar
A spiritual rush sat throne
And as the sun sets West, as well as the rest
I too am still alone.

— The End —