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dear, mom.

more, more, more

what’s new in your

nine to five, “I’m so high” life?

over there that’s money and mine

please don’t touch

 

say what you want to say, but I know what it’s about

so long, farewell to the long way we’ve come

bringing us down to lower than we were

before you arrived.

 

That’s fine with me, I’ll fend alone

see if I remember you when a few years pass

a long way from any home of mine

a nod in the store can suffice

maybe I won’t see you there.

 

next week sometime, that’s what it always is

later tonight doesn’t come soon enough

and soon enough it doesn’t matter

what’s your name, have we met?

 

changed so much, it’s all fine with me.

i’ve forgotten exactly what you used to be.

smaller as the years go by, all of it lost in time.

 

sell your soul to the devil,

or maybe I’ve sold mine?

god sits somewhere lost in love

and here you are with nothing but an ink smudge

it’s all fine though, we learn as we go

I guess you’ve fallen somewhere along the line

maybe when I figure it out I’ll die.

I guess you’ll be soon behind?

if not that’s fine you’ve got a long way to go,

don’t worry about it so much,

 

remember though, who I was

and who you wanted to be.

never the same, never to meet

angel on your shoulder,

devil in your head,

I guess there’s a lot to say

let’s talk soon,

but keep your mouth shut and your fists clenched

what other way could it ever be?

long lost far away

see you soon, we’ll know where we sit then.

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margaret-bailey-turner
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Oct 2, 2011
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