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satan @ sheetz

Joe Roarty

Rain breaks
loud & hard

I saw satan
he was pumpn gas @ sheetz
I sd
I didnt think u needd gas
he sd
I don’t
but I hav 2 gt out of th rain
wn it rains
wn rain breaks
hard & loud
ovr th hd of anyone
evn th king of hell
must find sheltr
evn th foulst shit
can b washd clean
by a hard rain
& thn wher wd I b?
This palace
of concrete, plastic & glass
& th stnch of gasoline
fills me w/ a powr
2 make th innocnt bleed
but this goddamnd rain
its senslss purity
like belief w/ nothing 2 believe
that fills its senslssnss
w drumming thundr
I pray 2 th rain
I pray 2 it 2 stop
& satan laffd
I askd hm
how long r u gonna keep standn thr w/ that host n yr hand?

as long as it rains
thr’ll b a world
i’ll stop wn th rain dos

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