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Dictionary Man

from Dream Token by Russell Joslin

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A poker playing heavy this man will never be, hes too interested in his dictionary.
So convinced that shes lying to me, too transparent to ever ever see.

Shades of yellow and shades of red, thoughts of collapse and failure in his head.
And every single morning he wishes he was dead.

He walks though his life like a suit in the street, pale un-noticed, unwittingly discreet.
He describes the moon to others in inches and feet, hes so distracted that he forgets to eat.

He’s mean, he’s lost, he’s lonely.

But he loves his friends and the people he has met,
Up in the hills above the grime and the wet cement,
Where he looks down on the city with a bloodshot eye,
And a pretty bird flies in the sky.
Theres a girl up there in a meadow
who will take him for the man that he used to be,
pick roses in his company,
make him forget about the man that he wants to be.
And they’ll put up all their possessions for sale,
And he’ll sell his razorblades and his cat-o-nine-tails,
And they’ll live happy-after in a fairytale,
Cos she’ll be doin’ the whippin’ from now on.
And they’ll look down on the city with their bloodshot eyes,
And they’ll cry for the years that they tried to survive
In a place where they couldn’t see the light of their lives.

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from Dream Token, released July 7, 2007

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