ONE MAN SHOW

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***
Put it on your back
and drag it all a little further
down the road.
Try to catch a breath
but you're still shaking like a leaf
from the cold.
No place to lay your weary head down, nowhere to call a home.
No hand reaching out to save you,
no hand to hold.
-'-
Your safety and your comfort cost more
than you could ever comprehend.
But you ain't got a strong leg to stand on
or a spare hand to lend.
You ain't got a dollar,
You ain't got a nickel or a dime,
not a friend in this whole damn world
and you ain't got the time.
~~~
Every last stitch of your clothing: borrowed, given or stolen...
Looking like the only place
left to go
is the end of the line.
***
WHEN you realize we only live to die,
but you're still dying to live.
Always taking and taking
but you never got nothing left to give.
~~~
Swallowing your tears,
then suddenly you're leaking like a sieve.
Your MIND is in a GRIND,
your heart is rattlin beneath your ribs.
***
TRYYY to keep it all together
but you feel yourself
slipping through the cracks.
YEAHHH the devil on your shoulder's
been talking to that
monkey on your back.
~~~
You're a single sharp breath away
from a sudden panic attack.
Seems the skeletons
in your closet
and the monster
in your mirror
have made a pact.
~~~
So you fill your lungs up
with cigarette smoke,
try to baptize yourself
in the booze...
Cuz life just don't seem worth living...
but it's all that you've got
left to lose.
~~~
Body's begging you to take it easy,
your doctor says take it slow...
But you've already taken it
as far as you figure it'll go.
***
So you put it on your back
and drag it all
a little further
down the road.
When you're chomping at the bit
but the bit bites back
- don't you know.
All revved up but you
ain't got a damn place to go.
The blessed curse
of the unknown
one man show.
~~~
By the time you finally find your place,
you've already lost the race.
Try to make your mark on the world
but you're gone without a trace.

.End.