(Picture by LewSethics)

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The Grey Grey Streets of Home

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Snake eyes on my back

With   flashing red lights,

Sirens wail like a crack baby

Only   grown!

My shoes are holes

With feet in them!

Out of my way!

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It was rainin’, just like it is tonight,

Pouring down like Doom!

Whiskey was needed and the cards beckoned me

To a table alive with death

Where the players dropped like flies

Until there was only two of us left,

Me and some Skeletor lookin’ son-of-a-bitch

With dice for eyes.

A fortune lay between us

But we were out of chips

So the bony skinless motherfucker

Raised me  a chance to live forever!

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The room got cold,

Cold like the hot seat in July!

I threw in my last chip:

My fucking soul!

Oh no!

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“Two Pair” he said,

Snake eyes where his eyes should be,

“Of Aces” and showed me four bullets.

Silence spread like an infection.

“Full house” says I,

“Three wild cards with Deuces high.”

Five of a kind,

And you could hear

The fucking lightbulbs burning!

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He sucked in all the oxygen

In the room before he spoke.

And when he did, he said:

“you will live forever”

“You Will Live Forever”

“YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER!”

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So out of my way!

Out of my way.

I gotta blend in somehow,

So I won’t be found.

I live forever, you know.

But HE doesn’t want me.

YOU DO!

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http://authspot.com/poetry/edifice-complex/

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http://authspot.com/poetry/run-with-scissors-kick-the-cat/

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