Like Magicians

from MEDS by David Brown

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If you spot me in a dream, wearing white across the room
Near a crowded parlor entrance, and you don't know what to do
Write your name in the fog with your finger on the mirror
And I will take you by the arm and we both will disappear
And the dream will go on, but with perspective split in rows
No more eye of the beholder and death to all egos
And if you're ever awakened, you could be perfect
According to someone like me

Pacifism's failed me and me body has failed me too
And the State has set itself on fire
What do we do?
Shall we struggle like magicians, chained, inverted above the gorge
Or should we shut off every spigot and let the flames complete the Lord's work?

Belief's a trap door
Do you remember when you fell?
I believe in you and I'm vulnerable as hell
And if I ever lost you from my fingertips would flow
An anarchistic terror lit with nihilism's glow
And the tip of my tongue would be empty, tasteless, silent

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from MEDS, released August 20, 2018

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David Brown Bloomington, Indiana

Helicopters fly overhead. Cars rush by the window. Talkin' Neo-Nothing Blues. Escalators and hammering. A media grape-stomping.

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