Ten Black Tents Streets are bare as a babies arm A breakfast of Champions Waves his white flag, Seeing seeing seeing That the war was lost
A long time ago.
Admit defeat And feel the cool rush of Freedom Freedom Freedom
Are we not men? Are we not women? Are we not
Human beings on a minuscule, Smoke filled planet and breaking the bones We are born upon To see the state of stars, shining bright and Emtionless; void Of any past relationships and thinking of Father, his face flushed and red, puffy and non-complacent, Lost in
No thought, but a million
All at the same time.
To make it impersonal, Away from oneself, Off and away and in another room, Seeing the light skip across the puddle, Bound across and into the alleyway, Flashing stares in a nuclear fashion, Asking the naked clerk if the best thing to do is:
Just give up.
Instead, The clerk hears not what you say, So you walk away,
Thinking this you better change for the better Or else most and all and this you