The Silent Speak / The Long Way Round

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He was as hard as chestnuts

Steeped, in vinegar

Overnight

She would, wipe the sweat

From his prison

Tattoos

Crying on the phone

To her mother

Just past midnight

Saying she, is, at her

Wits end

And what’s a girl supposed to do

 

He stood up, protected her

From imaginary

Danger

Where the Wild Rose

Replaced the

Dandelion and Burdock

As long, lost, distant cousins

Drinking together again

Say don’t be a, stranger

An’ the Talbot boys

Start swaying,

Singing ‘We don’t give a fuck’

 

 

And sometimes life

Gives you lemons

Sometimes lemonade

Why make it harder

On yourself than it needs

To be

If trouble and strife

Well-meaning demons

Show up every, Saturday

Maybe, just maybe

You need a weekend, getaway

By the sea

 

If I walk for hours

To the top of the hill

I can survey, the damage

Years of digging

Underground

Digging up your neighbor

Teenage misfits

And their illegal substances

Going on a rampage

Taking their time

The long way round

Trying to embrace her

 

Rebellion and religion

Let’s take a minute,

To discuss

On the rocks

Or neat

Like a well-aged whisky

Rage matures and mellow’s

If you snag a break

And get the rub

A brighter future

Is within your reach

If you can lift it with your pinkie


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