| The lids on Streetlights peel back to reveal row upon row of bulging black bird
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| eye
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| All gorged out toward you like exotic zoo snakes heaped up
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| on fiberglass rocks, fat with farmed rats coaxed down their throat
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| below them in their brights,
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| tilt finished arrows beached up on thin tin signs.
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| and where its corrugated stem injects into cement
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| there is a deep fried breastbone,
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| popping hard half ate on a rich red curb
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| All at once
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| The next morning everything begins again
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| Over a walk past a few balloons tied to a lovesick car-salesman's wrist.
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| You press on
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| A soft bicycle wheel chained up
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| behind a savage looking pair of women’s dress shoes,
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| abandoned to the left of a tire tread pressed dead pigeon
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| lain askew in more rich rose colored gutter
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| There there
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| Temperature taking your skin
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| Tinged city wind catching air on your pleasantly imperfect and c-section shaped
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| skull
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| For once forget your headed to the mailbox
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| to drop more finished bills down to its gut
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| Even though for all you know that’s about as far as those things ever go
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| As sad as it is so, (x2)
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| Kids today will never wear the perfect cape of clean air
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| Nor one true brand new brazier of sheer luck
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| or does someone out there, does someone out there still expect that
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| the way a moth gives freely of itself unto the bulb
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| they will not learn their lesson from a teachers copy
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| of a blackened lung, hung in the classroom, on the coat rack
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| Or left dripping in the closet during math minutes passing
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| nor from a nice new globe made of gold, cast in the shape of a half eaten apple
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| Not until
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| The sun is on a stick
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| The moon hung on a hook
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| Desperate times call for step by step schematics of the human dive (x6)
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| Fool. |
| Not
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| Gum up bubble flavored up sitting on a more popular mechanics of a fifty foot
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| flesh. |
| Not
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| Watch a thieving wallet going over the counter of botox. |
| With your arms a great
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| cops. |
| Not
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| Not god. |
| Not done. |
| So booking the atomic clock. |
| Not sea loud to clear.
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| Over a dozen boxed cars. |
| Keys to the city
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| You’re rap rock. |
| Not blood. |
| Not gold bonded. |
| Not
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| You serious precarious, but with no snots
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| And a sunset interjects
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| Donating the kind of red you’d only see in stores
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| Affording yourself a bit more polarity, some singular mood polarity
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| And if you could, you’d have a close friend
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| drive you off into the sinking pinks |