Nightlines
get the grimness gone
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we’re of the instant
here, lying down
drawn out
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taking our dark like a pill
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then the things you say inside are true
pause
what you tell yourself is news
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draw the flowers
and you must smell them
you only have to do it in your head
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time is a hammer in the early hours
the telling tap
or there’s the heartbeat of the house
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we’re ghosts
now it’s the animals rule
only they can talk
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there’s all the light fallen to us
there’s all the dark we hold
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you can’t read
scratch
a way back in
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trussed in time time all sorts
and colour patched and spat
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am I drifting down?
am I to upfurl?
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committing to ephemera
now that I am here
dissolve
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a bird sings into morning
but at first you can’t be sure
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forget the thing you meant to mean
must check the grey for that
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alarm clock
ever bent on revenge
for all of those bashings before
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it’s always
what’s for breakfast then
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a call
as of the wild
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a clock seen from above
would show all down the drain
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remember you’re the most dangerous animal
that should cheer you up