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Shallow

Creeping out of my head

they're sprawled across the floor

all hopes are dead

and laying there.

 

I have no want to go back to school,

although knowledge has always been my passion.

I can't even recall facts that I used to know,

like the creases on the back of my hand,

 

Music would radiate from my room

Either the guitar

the record player

or my computer would blast ballads

of love and of hate

but I can't even remember a single song

by the Foo Fighters.

 

And I used to know them all.

 

There is no love of knowing like there used to be

no drive for novels

short stories or poems,

I don't know how I am going to manage

the creativity that my life

will desire from my brain.

 

every desire to trip on acid

or philosophize like

Carl Sagan and Sigmund Freud...

or both

 

Dead as letters on this keyboard.

 

I used to be bright, long haired and free

I knew just about everything

and would be up to try anything,

but something happened and now

its flowing through the cracks,

 

I wanted to be cool

I wanted to be new

a smart boy,

with secrets of which

only some knew.

 

brain dead and sad

all my life draining

and I don't know what to do.

Now I'm a corpse

in a shallow grave,

if two feet above the my dreams

and queen sized

is shallow

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