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Aquarian Breathing for Terrestrial Asmatics

It’s too comfortable to write

In light so bright my sarcasm wont bite

 

So I’d rather wax intellectual in the freezing cold

Let my icy lungs ****

In some tar and I’ll

Hold everything I say

As

True

 

If only we could compile clues

We’d see

All the bodies we buried to be moderately happy

But still I’ve done worse things

While eye’s rolled in the back of their heads

 

Averting your vision

Can be the only tactic in your book

Of smarmy one liners

That all seem to be blunt remarks about my size

Which is fine

Worse things have been said

During diner conversations

We counted off the ways in music how we’d be a bonnie and Clyde

 

And if the220 razor wires grins sewed of mouths off cheating friends

88 sharp teeth gleaming, of devilish plots we were scheming

52 white knuckles clenched over getaway cars, or benches in parks watching false stars

36 black stares something about face mauling and bears, but I didn’t care that we only had

7 seconds to make it out with the money

5 eye’s wide open to ceiling fans or a lack their of

1 reason to wake up

 

And in such a way we could be writing pings on sound recorders put it just goes silent with the senseless bashing of fists on porcelain/.

 

but in the end we can only hope it means nothing

or as empty as air

or as simple as breathing

 

-Kevin T

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Jun 17, 2010
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