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Living On a High Wire

Living on a dream that never fed me, all it did was take my soul. I'm bound by chains with a pitchfork held between my bloodshot eyes. It started when we were kids, just being idiots and sniffing everything we saw. Then swinging over a broken boat with no idea how to swim. "Reckless" was never in our vocabulary, we did what did whenever we wanted. Finally came our dream- the one that got my here- seeing every critic take their front row seat. Everyone drops down to their knees. Dead silence until the organs start playing.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 5/26/2011 6:50:00 AM
Thank you for sharing the heart of your poetry with us here at Poetrysoup. I enjoyed reading your fasinating poetry this morning and I look forward to reading more of your poetry John. Love, Carol
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