Saturday, June 21, 2008

The Dim Downstairs


Yeah,

all right.

Down in your basement

with the stereo on pills and needles.

Look at all clean dirty people

shakin' down the early hours

shooting the rookie

straight into the blue highway

from the roller coast

to the smoke of your soul.

Yeah,

all right.

Punch this one up

and watch the pupils

dilate.

Nobody gonna tell you

what to do.

Nobody gonna tell you

when to stop.

Time to take.

Time to take back.

Time to take back a bite

from the bottle

and ornament the 

little red light eyes

hung in pairs of peers

walling the dim downstairs

and knuckle slicing open the 

tired corners

of

the same old bag.

 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Listen to the shades; they know the way.

Anonymous said...

btw - That XTC song makes me way depressed every time I hear it. Kinda makes it hard to stop by. There's a good reason for it, but that's not a story for the public.

ScaughtFive said...

Hmmmm, I'm curious. Do tell.

Anonymous said...

Someday, I'll share it, but not in the public sphere. It's not a nice story.