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Brave New World

It's the nature of the experiment To be peeling off my autumn skin In a gasoline waterlogged romance. You can stay If you want to. We're pulling figures out of the way. A fire in the hills Is luring a crowd in And the admission fee starts Somewhere in the infinite. The new years Tokyo Alliance Has brought a bouquet Of pharmaceutical pleasures And I'm handing out Needles and narcotics In the opium den. This brave new world Sells sex for a dollar and A penniless teenager For even less. And fast from the ground Stands a Brazilian girl, Fastening her garter belt And smoothing her skirt As she casts a virgin's suicide stone Into the sounds of the sunrise.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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