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He sat in the parlor with a plastic battery powered cat
he had purchased of an infomercial in the middle of the night!
He laughed when it sang! and his rosy drunk cheeks ordered the drink I drank down
sank down into an empty stomach.
Santa Clause outside blew smoke in the face of a small-child-girl
who would cry through the night as the impostor slept in an alleyway…
Back at the café the old man bought a flower from a charming street vender:
a purchase! an investment! a flower! a flower!

Mother!!! Fiction has taken my life!
Mother, why do you bother (with me)?
Fiction has taken my…life….

In a park a kilometre away from all of this, two teenagers kissed for the very first time in a gazebo and talked about how lovely the weather was!
Even though winter was coming and their teacher said it looked, it looked like London, but London was still a train and a tunnel away…
In a train! a man’s passport was stolen…
Over train tracks his identity was stolen!
He never thought much of it anyways,
with a new beginning he starting a popular clothing vending company that
employed
children
in lands far away
for an underpaid wage!

Oh! you know, Fiction has taken my, my, my…
Mother! why do you bother with me? cause fiction has taken my…life…
But I just cannot understand!

why –

fiction and fantasy are what they are,
photographed moons leave out the stars,
the couple in the park give up kisses for cars,
protestors’ brothers empty credit cards,
the park is covered with beer cans and trash,
in ten years I’ll be tapping cigarette ash,
mothers and fathers weep in empty beds,
people in costumes forget what they’ve said,
old men fall asleep on the stools of cafes,
withering flowers in their hands lay,
young men end up on late busses home,
regretting comments made to the old,
pet cats die with batteries,
writers romance tragedies.

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from Outside, the Great Drought, released February 11, 2011

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