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[sid] => 95030
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => To the bottle we Speak in Tongues
[time] => 2005-05-19 18:42:45
[hometext] => To the bottle we Speak in Tongues
[bodytext] => The wine bottle rocks back and forth on the edge of the table To and fro like Please don’t spill I’m drunk and broke and you’re all that I have left You’re all that matters in the whole world right now You’re all that I have, for real even She took my money and my cat and my records And she broke all you’re brothers and you’re sisters in the street below She screamed that all I care about is you We’ll that’s she has left me with So what does she expect When I crawl into bed with you on my breath And your stain on my lips It’s what she wanted Isn’t it? She took everything else My freedom, my hope, my joy My sanctity and my sanctuary She took my damn cat and broke my wine You are the one last bottle She must have missed you In her stubborn fury So please don’t fall Theirs no one to clean the carpet She broke my music And said that she wanted to get married She said that she can’t stand it So she broke all that I cared for Because I didn’t care for her And now they rot in the alley below In the dark with the trash and the hobos I wonder if any of your brothers And your sisters made it through the fall I wonder if the glass remained intact I’m half tempted to crawl out of this bed It was her bed too Just to take a peak But I know that they are all done Glass broken like the skin Of car accident victims Wine like the innards of the organs Wasted on the warm concrete Lapped up by alley cats One of which may be mine And I know that she’s really gone [comments] => 1 [counter] => 158 [topic] => 54 [informant] => greyeyezfreeze [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => happypoetry )
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