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Renè Magritte

from Reasons to be Tearful by Olympians

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Holed up in a padlocked spare bedroom
Holed up but your eyes are firmly set on something else
You're something else
If you'd hold up, so much I need explaining
Did we do wrong?
Can we start over?
There must be something we missed something unpleasant that was said Now you've a diary date set, with a river bed

So you're holed up, for the time, in a locked spare bedroom
But the door may as well not really lead to anywhere at all

Rene Magritte painted foliage black and the sky blue
Now he's spray painting hideous cocks on my house

I plied a honest trade, safe from a cruel life
Earning just enough to keep the bailiffs from my door
I felt like the tourist here, washed up on the shore one night
Too old for staying drunk but too young to call the shots and fight

Oh, life, I'll paint myself free till I'm old, sick, drunk and blind

A year of a life unkind to me reads like a selfish meter-free infinite poem Months bleeding from weeks fingernails near bitten off
Wincing through each dumb meaningless word
And here is the part where hourly the poem recedes
You repeat your sad case through the door
You're making doomed pleas to an old dry feelingless dead hollowed out cold bundle of bones

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from Reasons to be Tearful, released June 24, 2016

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