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EPIPHANY ON MANCHESTER STREET |
Fatcow
| Kevin the pimp
takes your last cigarette
and as he drags in
he says just one more trick doll
that's my girl
and how you despise him
with his dead fish eyes
and his greasy comb-over
and his stale sweat
the way he licks his lips
the way he takes
what he wants when
you're too out of it to care
and in that momentthe world slow turns
to freeze frameyou remember a night
long long ago
when you lay on the hillside
under the southern cross
in the damp green grass
above the ferry terminal
with your first true love
and you'd only ever kissed
and gone to second base
up above you inky space
showed every pulsing star
in infinite distant mystery
there was a meteor shower
and?you were too small
and the sky was too big
you felt fear in your bones
you felt lost in the vastness
you felt you were nothing
floating on an dark river
as if the vacuum of space
could consume you
disperse you
dissolve you
?
that fear never left you
that fear was a blackened mouth
that ate you alive
again and again
until you founddetachmentin a bottle
in a foil
in a line
in a haze
?
it all flashes back at you
as you stand on that corner
and kevin is still talking
but now he's in slow motion
you can't hear what he's saying
and you don't give a shit
'cause you suddenly realise
in a moment of clarity
that your premonition
was right on the money
and you are gone, so gone
you are a missing person
in your own empty existence
curled into foetal
lost in the void
vanished |
| in a bottle
in a foil
in a line
in a haze
?
it all flashes back at you
as you stand on that corner
and kevin is still talking
but now he's in slow motion
you can't hear what he's saying
and you don't give a shit
'cause you suddenly realise
in a moment of clarity
that your premonition
was right on the money
and you are gone, so gone
you are a missing person
in your own empty existence
curled into foetal
lost in the void
vanishedthen click - like a glitch
the night is fast forwarding
kevin is flickering
his voice sounds like helium
a car pulls up quickly
and you climb on in
and a fat hairy guy
is grabbing at your breasts
and it hurts it hurts it hurts????stopthen the tape rewinds
and you're back on the corner
and kevin takes your last cigarette
and he starts to speak
and you turn away
and you start to walk
kevin is grabbing your arm
but you pull back
and you start to run
and kevin is shouting
but you just keep on going
you glimpse your reflection
in?a store window
and you know that it's you
because you're smiling
and you're crying
you're smiling
you're crying
you're running
you're running
keep running
run.l-j stockman 2008 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 July 2008 )
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