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Bug Zapper Eyes.

All the min-u-ets you played danced in my head

Cut-ting through all my brain's synapses

Now I find myself staying up at night

Fruit flies dip-and-diving on my

Porch light

 

All the con-cus-sions I suf-fered in the dark

Helped in the day when I re-invented art

Keep-ing up with all the verbal trends

Words I say in private are all

Open ends

Open ends

(There's nothing living, don't know

Why,

I don't know why,

My brain is numbing and it's weird)

 

All the mas-ter-pieces kept on hanging up

When the doctors said they "had to pull the plug"

Awake enough to hear those daylight words

My night-light eyes ate the bugs like

Little birds

Just like little birds

(No longer buzzing in my head)

 

All the con-vo-lud-ed pains at

Midnight!

 

All the bugs in-side me ate

My light!

 

All the dead have died in

Sick-ly fa-shion

Dropping like flies with blinks of God's eye

Never forgetting it all

 

All the things you said were dead had really died

All the things you said were dead had really died

All the times I thought you had, you never lied

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Written by
clayton-woolery
American
Published
Dec 25, 2010
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Cure my insanity.

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