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This is the start

This is the start,

Though it feels like the end.

Alone,

Moved away from falls from graces and friends.

 

A mixture,

Of social and sexual depravity,

Driving Me.

I need to find a way to overcome a force 5 times gravity.

 

In this state,

It's easy to fall into past mistakes.

Like Peruvian towns,

Rebuilt on the sites of earthquakes.

 

Got to conjure,

A living man out of the dirt.

So far,

I've got as far as a carrot nose and an evening shirt.

real liferebirth

◄ G.I.A.B.O.

'Cos it's the ones that love you ►

Comments

tony sheridan

Sat 22nd Dec 2012 19:22

Nice one! Take care, Tony.

<Deleted User> (10062)

Sat 22nd Dec 2012 18:12

Bitingly poignant last line.
Another belter.

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