Monday, October 28, 2013

sneakers hanging, take two


let me tell you 
how to get here
the sun has broken
and the roads are clear
take a turn
at the end of Main
don't matter which
they're both the same

old sneakers hanging
from a telephone wire
old flat bed truck
with a flat rear tire
here's currently
the place I stay
and it's from here
I'll run away

          don't try to tell me
          I won't listen
          don't try to teach me
          I won't learn
          look for me
          in the rear view mirror
          and know i will never return
          know I will never return

small towns have
long memories
and it's a long, long trail
in front of me
but I will not
be taken by
another broken alibi

I like the rhythm
of your hips
the grasping of
your fingertips
your silhouetted
curve and sway
almost enough
to choose to stay


          don't try to tell me
          I won't listen
          don't try to teach me
          I won't learn
          look for me
          in the rear view mirror
          and know i will never return
          know I will never return


old sneakers hanging
from a telephone wire
the memory
of a Sunday choir
the cemetery's 
cold gray stone
the resting place
I know as home


          don't try to tell me
          I won't listen
          don't try to teach me
          I won't learn
          look for me
          in the rear view mirror
          and know i will never return
          know I will never return


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