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Sick Enough To Stay Home

Fever tickles your forebrain

Bad thoughts dribble down your nose

Like syrup off my fingertips

Coughing up cheaply made lies

And selling them for the price

Only minimum wage parasites can ****

The propaganda of self pity

Fogging up your vision

Like car windows stained with

Frustrated ********** (or *******

Sliding straight down your legs

Where your tongue is heavy

Too depressed to form a sentence

Yet thirsty enough to swallow

Thirteen million restless presents

Scrambling around

Clawing their way up the back

Of your throat

Where the sun sets pink

between your teeth

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chaotic-melodic
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Published
Aug 30, 2010
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© Cory McQueen

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