To Forget

A Poem by johntheghost

Another goobye song

1/4/08

To Forget Where You Are

I fill my bad brains with television noise and poison my mind with stupid choices kill myself with booze and weed cry myself to sloppy sleep internet dreams assaulted screams stupid people doing stupid things cowards killing kings and queens mug shots and movie stars beauty queens in biker bars

Horoscopes horror shows doctors dealing overdose yesterday donʼt get me started all the old folks are broken hearted I just keep on pushing through

so lost so lost so without you

I go down to the bar

With my Gibson guitar

And I play till Iʼm done

To forget where you are

I chase my bad dreams with rum and coke cola and quiet my screams of death and Ebola as Africa slides Pakistan falls India rises and China she calls hello hello hello to you sir can you sell me some oil and diamonds and fur Geopolitical what does that mean? The west is the best I hear Morrison scream and just cause youʼre loud doesnʼt mean you are right to hurt everyone everyone that you meet I keep running away from from my very own feet

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I run my bad self through drama and trauma tight shirts and tattoos and banjoarama earrings like hub caps Caucasian mud flaps singles and doubles and triple flip lovers Hasidic Rastafarian Arabic Christians leftover beliefs that deny the system mind numbing newspapers useless politicos rivals gangbangers delinquents collaterals Iʼll be leaving a trails of entrails watch out its the boogeyman no one ever told you he lives in your head man thereʼs no where to run to and no where to hide just like martha and the vandellas time for me to slide

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