bell the cat

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Knockdown dragout, a bureaucratic shakedown
It's a straight up cop out
in a working class ghost town
The night time's are wild, don’t leave me here to bell the cat
And all the while she drank chamomile and read from the almanac
Knockdown dragout, she’s an elemental machine
adrift in the carnage of her broken parts and a dopamine smokescreen enough to shake her heart into rags rose cheeks and flash of teeth she left her kids in a parking lot at the jal lai on main street
Blue light eye drops she smelled of coke and rum
she's a train wreck that runs on schedule and I’m the pill end of her tongue
knockdown-dragout, a bureaucratic shakedown
It's a straight out cop out
in a working class ghost town
The night time's are wild, don't leave me here to bell the cat
And all the while she drank chamomile and read from the almanac
Blue light eye drops she smelled of coke and rum
she's a train wreck that runs on schedule and Im the pill end of her tongue
When the power goes out in a Havana
And the hurricane washes all the bridges out
I’m in a ditch rolled convertible on a trip to kingdom come
But no worries, some jogger will find my dead body
Back at the hotel, laying in bed, she felt like she was the last person on earth. But she also thinks in amusing kinks which she writes on her business card
A blusher with a buxom lover who just loves Marquis de Sade

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from The Clamor, released March 17, 2023

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