Thursday, August 1, 2013
a price must be paid
A price must be paid,
for dishing out afterhour secrets to the collective memory girl
for late night piano lessons beside living room window air-condition units
pouring stiff white-russians through stale placid hours of dawn
A price must be paid,
for a mothers son who took his last feted breath on my bedroom carpet one late
summer morning
for living by dried blood rendezvous routines in
vacant county parking ramps
for flimsy green paper idols and
decade old
abandoned ivory
silk ribbon
marionette strings
A price must be paid,
for her autumn imagination
one Tuesday afternoon in mid-october,
recklessly removing sticky bandages
much too early
from fresh gaping wounds, yea,
by pale aching fingertips
A price must be paid
for reading his obituary online, when
only two days prior being booted
from a men's recovery house
I temporarily manged
A price must be paid,
in a forsaken patriarch land of convenience
as you slam a car-door shut,
lost in your daily mind
motoring out onto evening turnpikes,
back into tunnels of the living,
while not far off in the remote distance,
our numbers are steadily being pulled from the
grim eternal bingo machine
and you don't even care
who is
pulling them
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