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Oct 2011
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.
Margaret Bailey Turner
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