Suitcase
You listen with your head
Tucked between your knees
As if my words rose in you
Like bitter black bile. Denial
Fans across your throat
Like the tentacles of some
Deep sea God strangling
Your voice and I have
Never heard you speak
The truth above a whisper
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What is it that you are so
Afraid to know? Does my
Language falter like the
Withering steps of a mother
Who chose to leave before
Her children had the language
To question her retreat? Haven’t
I always been the one to cast aside
Pride and summon you home?
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Unpack your bags, your voluminous
Threats, lets just rest here together on
The underside of a pale wrist in the
Deviant blood of an inherited pathos
Day 12 Music Challenge “Mind Trip”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0
This was a hard choice because I have so many favorites. Iron Butterfly, 13th Dimension, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead too many artists to name! I chose this song because I had a story to go with it. In college I took Abnormal Psychology and the class ended around 9:30 pm. As I go to bed between 9:00 and 10:00 pm because of my Epilepsy by that hour I am tripping all by myself lol My teacher played music before class, this song was recurring. I always arrived early because of Sam’s OCD so I would sit in an empty classroom listening to this music, in a haze. Then class would start and we’d watch hours of lobotomy videos and other seriously disturbing videos. So for 3 hours I sat in this class in my semi-conscious state extremely disturbed, it was a very surreal feeling (kind of like the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex’s eyes are pinned back sometimes). I more or less went to bed after class so I had a lot of messed up dreams.
Here is another more modern version of the song
mindlovemisery 