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Down

Predisposed to be alone
And I fail my friends out of reckless hibernation
It might be selfish, it might be nothing
It might be my new bad habit.

My hands are still cold from yesterday
Walking in the cemetery’s gray
I don’t know anyone there.
Walking between the rows of headstones
Thinking about all the Sunday clothes
Underneath the plastic flowers.

Under the roof of the great white advantage
Expectation and possession lock me down
I know I’m lucky, I know I’m guilty
I’ve been let down a bit too easy.

My feet are still tired from every day
Walking in the same-old-shit parade
Where the money’s too much like medicine
And though the agenda’s fraught with ghosts
Still I hang around for another dose
Waiting for louder warning.

Down,
Down is just a dagger to the visitor
Down doesn’t share its victims with company or leave on a desperate request.

I wish I could wish these ills away—
An impossible task in this sunken state
Where all advice just hammers the nails right in.
I wish there was more than science,
But the way of the world’s in the way of believing
There’s any option other than waiting it out.

And down…

I’m waiting on a letter.
I’m down;
I’m waiting on a letter.


C. 1999 James M. Davidson

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from Sort of Back to Having a Life, released October 10, 2007

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