Come on, we're taking the blue train.
You've tried crack, Coke, Eckankar and cans of spinach,
but all you get is dry sex with stick men
who babble all night about can't-miss ground floors in clown shoes you must be this dead to wear.
Come down the gone escalator to the blue train.
Do a swan dive into a crystal bowl of beautiful doubletalk
and meet us inside the celestial suitcase,
lost between Rome and Bangkok but returned in the ice cream morning
to the hotel squirreled away in the pocket your spontaneous anthem.
Come in, we're just leaving to catch the blue train.
It's the overdose you can't find in stores, the big bass beat
the blood makes in your ears each time you dive off an ordinary Wednesday.
Nurse is here in case you faint, Electric Jimmy is here in case you don't.
Get into this, get right, get straight, get after it,
get in loser,
we're taking the humdingity third-rail high-speed no refunds blue train.
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for The Sunday Muse #220.
Lord. Would have to quote the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteThis is hilarious: "You've tried crack, Coke, Eckankar and cans of spinach" Eckankar!!!!
And this: "It's the overdose you can't find in stores...
Nurse is here in case you faint, Electric Jimmy is here in case you don't." Fantastic.
"Come down the gone escalator to the blue train.
ReplyDeleteDo a swan dive into a crystal bowl of beautiful doubletalk"
Love that line...You so perfectly express what I am struggling to say. Can we trust anyone these days?
Brilliant as always. I loved all the lines qbit quoted especially, too.
ReplyDeleteYou have outdone yourself with this poetic satire of what life can or could be Shay. So many cleverly crafted lines! You say what others are incapable of!! Truly amazing my friend!
ReplyDeleteThe world of desperate junkies brought to life - witty and scary. Wonderful to read.
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