Nellekke Tak

All the home town boys
Wasting their time with oil and fire
Took some time
To flip a dime
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There comes a time in many relationships,
Believe me, I’m old
I know,
Where one questions themselves
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You understand the trivial things
The way the rain falls hard on the roof
'It's just mathamatics, ' you said.
But no, boy.
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finding yourself entangled between clouds
only fog in the distance
making it to see the end
of a very small earth
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Were you caught in the flight before the fall
taking in all its beauty
were you stuck in the realization before the crash
too late to remember what can't be changed
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As tonight falls down
I remember you
As the stars hit the pavement,
you rain
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Comforting lack of breath
Inhale yourself looking for a soul
Viewing a reflected self portrait
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And her lips die quick and cold beneath my own
They tremble still,
and her eyes won't close
But you're not here,
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My paintings and drawings thumb-tacked on
The closet door
Two rocking chairs
A Snapple bottle
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I lowered my chin down
This morning on the rye
From being set too tall
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My father’s advice: Please do not:
Make your biggest mistakes
Too many times
Don’t be a hole in so many belts
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“Don’t do that.” He said,
“Every time you loose your pride,
you make it harder and harder for me to love you”
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Infected by a climactic awe
A young room contaminated by a spurred moment
An expectance of invitation
There is no ardor
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What have I done,
To bathe these disturbances
The swirl of pretty pink everything
Bouncing along the tile of everyplace in town
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Sugar and caffeine are now my drugs of choice
So easily accessible with loose pocket change
But you, my nicotine,
Are a lover I shall bring first hand to the plane
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