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[bodytext] => I embarked on the trip but must’ve gotten lost along the way Look for the crossroads where five fingers intersect Study topography of palms trying to find the lifeline I know that look like the back of my hand On last legs to let longitudes lattidudes and dual attitudes Ascend snow capped sumitts to dive headfirst into the heartbeat Find the coveted breeding pools while the world around us flatline pedeatric police put youth in revolt under cardiac arrest and we call it all too natural to inject plaster in pulmonary pleasantries pick a poisoin step on up let young bloods run cold let clergy turn it to water the bonds of family shall hold no more sway than faucet drips that keep me up at night but the truth will burst to the surface and spurt like a severed artery try not to entangle oneself in the precious peripherals of the predator waste deep in couagluated serenity cannot seem to wade back to the surface streets cannot learn to touch your pulse cannot seem to see beyond the blood brain barrier scary that our world is bleeding send me a tournaquet give me your cellulose let me borrow some of that spirituality I have aspirations to be the soggy bandaid An inconvenient inescable brown jelly fish That floats around in the community pool I scratch scabs Because I’m interested in the saying beauty is only skin deep If we as a people hide our ugliness as well as we hope we do I’m surprised that blood isn’t black Its’ hard to face the fact in truth none of us will make the full trip back [comments] => 1 [counter] => 232 [topic] => 6 [informant] => simonwrite [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => AngryPoetry )
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