I'm constantly living out of a car door window.
Heading to dinner but never satisfied when I eat.
Always hungering for the next road:
The seasoning of the lights,
The peppering of the people.
The beast within always growling
Telling me
I'm
hungry
Brighter bulbs to hide from
More people to not talk to
More monuments to never visit
even when I live
10 minutes away.
But the beast doesn't feed on the lights,
people,
streets,
noise,
stars, cars and manicured yards,
Trees, leaves, and jingling keys,
Gravel roads, throaty toads,
Big red barns and a river's flow.
It feeds on the want.
The need.
The desire to bleed.
The car radio and willingness for the **** I put myself through.
Obese with the metropolis electricity,
Preparing to consume the next one:
[St. Louis]
[Chicago]
[Manhattan]
[LA]
Paris
Rome
Tokyo
Staring into the reflection of the dead eyes of the person it once inhabited
The hunger smiles in the window.
Running away is fun
[Disappearing] is easy
(It's part of the history,)
but it's never filling.
Bigger city
More people
Brighter lights
Over and over
Fatter and fatter
Emptier and emptier
Sugar cane in a child's diet
False calories in the form of "homes"
Trapped in a little car,
The driver belting Hallelujah.
Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 1:44 AM UTC
I'm constantly living out of a car door window.
Heading to dinner but never satisfied when I eat.
Always hungering for the next road:
The seasoning of the lights,
The peppering of the people.
The beast within always growling
Telling me
I'm
hungry
Brighter bulbs to hide from
More people to not talk to
More monuments to never visit
even when I live
10 minutes away.
But the beast doesn't feed on the lights,
people,
streets,
noise,
stars, cars and manicured yards,
Trees, leaves, and jingling keys,
Gravel roads, throaty toads,
Big red barns and a river's flow.
It feeds on the want.
The need.
The desire to bleed.
The car radio and willingness for the **** I put myself through.
Obese with the metropolis electricity,
Preparing to consume the next one:
[St. Louis]
[Chicago]
[Manhattan]
[LA]
Paris
Rome
Tokyo
Staring into the reflection of the dead eyes of the person it once inhabited
The hunger smiles in the window.
Running away is fun
[Disappearing] is easy
(It's part of the history,)
but it's never filling.
Bigger city
More people
Brighter lights
Over and over
Fatter and fatter
Emptier and emptier
Sugar cane in a child's diet
False calories in the form of "homes"
Trapped in a little car,
The driver belting Hallelujah.
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