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Poem Details
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| Title: | Mind Starvation |
| Author: | Jim |
| Date Submitted: | 11/30/2009 |
| Email: | jimellner@hotmail.com |
| Poem: |
Tuned in on an unknown part of my prehensile mind Like gambling Which one puts the icing on the cake? Drifted away to voices in my head Attrition equals a mulligan of direction Like a train yard, which track do I take? Give me the salvation of daily labor Job distracts thought, buys time Age summons non-being Is this living or just a bad dream Miracle in disguise Blues grinds me out of the dirty freight yard Playing manic dice Six in the morning One ganglion of box cars on the long steel track Pleasure in the desert sunrise Pain will enter with the progression of the day It''s all crazy Jug of liquor That''s how I live Hope I never see you there I like the solitude of the long rail ... |