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jailbirdIn stone cold skin kiosks, with broken legged card tables, in between convict stables:
sleep’s always a heartbeat away but a punch is always an inch from our jaw and some punches are an inch away from stopping a heartbeat.

so sleep’s a commodity that didn’t come with the room.
and every night
three cells down
an innocent jailbird sings.
don't be fooled by his criminal shade of nigger.

all the other white birds are tone-deaf in their cages.
without red curtains dividingThe puppets are cutting up their strings
and leaping off the stage.

The purple dinosaur is too old to sing.

The curtain calls have stopped
     off cue.
The actors run amok; askew
     trampling the Colosseum and the Odeon ...
      and the show just can’t go on inside the regular safe-distance confines.

We don't notice
    the scattered popcorn on the road,
     feeding the crows who always stay too late for behind the scene action.

The script is kindling for your fire
     cos
anthemTwo-way street. Traffic is speeding. In the middle, I am a little girl walking the yellow line.
I cannot see clearly what is around me. It's all going by in a blur of lights and metal.
I cannot drift from the path the yellow line provides or I will be trampled by the concrete zambonis.
I have to shout over the noise.
Everyone is shouting. Everyone is shouting over the shouting over the noise. And no one can hear each other.
And no one can step out of line. And even when the red light glows the procession must go on. For if I stop I will feel the toes nipping at my heels. If I don't heed the pushing they will rush right past me, riskin

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~zumbum Feb 21, 2007   Writer
I say.
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~slickdj3 Feb 7, 2007
Beautifull.. if i may say so...
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~ugly-bastard Jan 27, 2007
dont we all
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