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What you want is not always what you need
You get off your pills and forget how to see
Cower and plea, trenches and artillery 
We live at home peacefully while we bomb children overseas
Graveyards among trees, flies landing as they please 
What types of days are these, falling away it seems
Trying to achieve my dreams, self sabotage by any means
Holding four queens and a two, stinky bag in my shoe
Walking just to get through, get somewhere just to leave again
Spit and spin, coffee and gin, misunderstood original sin
Bent like cheap tin, kicked in, Tsavo lions den dark
Stark remarks, bearing your cleft heart beating red

◄ Playing with chalk

Gliding scales ►

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Nicola Beckett

Thu 12th Nov 2020 16:13

Fab poem

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