subway rides

• Artist: HUMIDIFIER
• Description: wrote this riding from new york to new haven on a train...no other real context.
  
  
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• Date: 07/23/2008
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how time flies on subway rides
and how slow life makes it go
living down the river styx
counting life in lolly licks

i've never had a thought of my own
but i know my mindbird has flown
but how closely everyone else's grown
it's much easier to blame insanity
than to actually blame whoops on me

and in my hand i've got a square paper
and i'll fold it down to a triangular taper
fold it across to the right
and flatten down square with a fight
living around on paper trains
counting life in paper cranes

i've told a billion why the sun has risen
but to no one really have i ever meant it
they want me happy but i'm no different
i don't want love without reason
but the daylight brings about the same treatment
lips so hot and eyes so vacant
a sullen demeanor and soul, truant

and in her hand she has a sheet
and she will take and lay it at my feet
the language on it is so pretty
and well-read by any other zombie
sitting blank on the swings in the sun
melting like wax with smiles like fun
living, seated in educated, meaningless ballet
counting life in meaningless essay

awake now, my eyes open wide
hearing the machineheart has finally sighed
new friends and old have already goodbyed
i breathe deep
i already miss sleep
my magic shanty shines in onyx
piloted in the dark by whitefaced stoics
living down the river styx
counting life in unsung lyrics

Comments

[Waiting for Lunch]

PS: Check mine out when I put it in. I'd like to know what you think of it.

[Waiting for Lunch]

Wow, this is really good! I'm glad to see something like this in the arena. I hope you don't mind--I'm saving your poem to my hard drive. I'd love to hear it as a song. That's what it's meant to be, right?