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The Road is Mud
Tonight 1984

Cara Losier Chanoine

Where there’s trouble,
there’s poetry,
and no one talks,
no one thinks,
but one day
I’m gonna get everybody
in line
with these stupid old feet
and this stubborn old fist.

The templars and the saracens
came to kneel
on this empty battlefield.
Strangers rise
from the cloudy above.
They twirl
in nylons and tattoos.
I took the next flight
for Borneo,
where all your sins
are hooked upon the sky.

Here, no one hesitates
to send all the sewage
down the hill.
Your trash
got a camouflaged face,
and you’re so surprised
she don’t want to kiss it.
You chew your fingers
and stare at the floor,
down where your paint
is cracking,
and no one walks tonight
but someone’s living
down your back stairs.

Loneliness
is a free society.
They say it’s a waste of time.
Prayers hide the saddest view;
they bear the cross
of the mirror blind,
but terror is a best laid plan
hanging by a cross and nail.
Sometimes, I feel like
the whole human race
is an open drain,
so make the last plane come
and I will see you in the sky.

They say loneliness is death
to the hands out of sync,
is a rich slice of life
cut with a broken spear.
The strangest things
break the sky in two.
There’s lipstick traces
on these stupid old feet
but one day,
I’m gonna make the last plane come.
One day, I will see you
in a different Palestine

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