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Theme from a Bar Stool

Ted Jackins

I walked in just in
time to see someone
get the toss,
“the lunatic is
in the grass,”
I will drink until
I achieve some kind
of temporary numbness
from electronic
messages sent telepathically
to someone else’s heart,
something approaching
brain damage.
Singing songs to forget,
I shout into the night
of my truest regrets,
and I trace a name
into the top and
encase it in a
broken bottle
just to see if
you even bleed when
the pain pricks your
skin
with its sharpest
of edges:
psychic,
or otherwise.
I have been surrounded
by lies all along,
and my voice,
alone,
will bring these walls
crashing down.
You used to define
perfection,
but now,
as I sit on my
barstool,
I think I know
you better than that.

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