Monday, July 6, 2009

We've got a bleeder

They tell me it’s just a thing

Of no real consequence

No true means to fund it

No valid ends to warrant

Even a passing interest


He knocks at my door

Invites himself in and makes himself comfortable

Then tries to explain the system

Like intricate sewer grids

Searing through all the bullshit

But still so much slips through undetected


I offered him a cup of coffee

Even asking him how he took it

And searched for the sugar

I never made use of

Now fixed in clumps

Now cut in cubes

Now served with milk

I kept mine black

Then I laid it on thick

How the under-swept made me

Physically sick

And if he knew what was

Good for him

He’d never step foot

In this house again


He stood up then

Shook my hand

Shrugged and condescending

“We’ve all got to grow up sometime”

Then left


Don't you think I don't already know

I can't fight from the inside and risk becoming you

But I can't fight from the outside at all

Don't you think I don't already know

Don't you think at all

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