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Oct 05, 2009
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torch song
it should be easy by now,
life in a trite torch song,
fogging up some unknown
someone’s reading glasses,
see, the trouble with truth is,
I am condemned in it, especially
at 5:00 in the morning
and I can’t carry a tune to save my
mind or my soul
the irony of it
a white flag
waving in the ocean of love songs
I keep drowning in,
besides,
the bullshit meter is running
on my Yellow Cab,
on my way to another hell realm,
how can I sing for my supper
when hungry ghosts are devouring
any footnotes remaining? torn sheets
of poems, scraped from the
bottom of the wretching pit
how can I read Bukowski and Rumi
in the same breath
to the self-indulgent fool I am
shed sunflower tears over midnight skies,
— Kailashana, Oct 05, 2009
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hugo la rosa
16 years 8 months ago
Dear Kailashana:
Kailashana
16 years 8 months ago
Hugo, and I love you anyway;
hugo la rosa
16 years 8 months ago
Dear Kailashana:
Kailashana
16 years 8 months ago
:-)~A
themoonman
16 years 8 months ago
Anna...
Seren
16 years 8 months ago
Dearest Anna
lyz
16 years 8 months ago
Dear Anna