Saturday, March 27, 2010

Play It Again, Salmonella

...I carried white lies so far they changed

colors, I held tantrums in my pocket


a long time, before I actually threw them.


I was born with dynamite in my chest.

Some days I wish the real me would would stand up


and shout table for ten, por favor!


I'm an emotional cripple, putting

his best crutch forward. My heart is a child


clutching his breath underwater. I know


these buttons don't control anything

but I push them anyway and pretend.


I'm a card carrying member of a canceled party...


-Jeffrey McDaniel

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