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Left of the Dial

I keep hearing voices I know aren't real

But I listen in tuning into the A.M.

You try to force it but I'm preoccupied

And it's like ash stinging my eyes

 

I'm on all fours here

I'm not trying to be clever

I'm praying for faith with white knuckles

Wishing the electrician would **** the handle

 

Impaled all my dreams

On a white picket fence

Seventy two hours of no sleep

 

Choke down the pain

Chase it with empathy

And I stagger triumphant

Like a drunken colossus

 

I grab onto the cracks

Of what's left of my sanity

And pull the wool back over my eyes

 

I hear the last call of the train

And I'm burning alive

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joseph-c
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Published
Sep 13, 2011
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