A staggering sort of sick boy
All lost and alone again tonight.
hey, see that scar in my conscience
mother gave that to me
and, hah, that crippled confidence
I guess I sure owe daddy one.

I never had fresh blood in my veins
they bulge with mucus and slime.
Ain't never gonna catch me smiling
mud mixed in yr heart and the walls all bare.
Lying on the side of my face, singing
a few lines from an old hymn book
as the red leaks into my milky whites.

They tried to give me a precedent
Saying I'm the spitting image
of some bag of rotting flesh somewhere
but in the end, as always
they were forever doomed to be wrong
for I am not like him; I am him
'cept I still got breath to laugh.

This old skin gonna be my bodybag
my container, my island barrier
and I spit on sin, there's not enough
in the nation of me, myself and it.
I can do anything so long no-one else
sees or hears me pretending it's real.
And today I want to be innocent.

Keyword: Everything I like is nice so I gotta have it twice

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Posted by Zombie Punk 2008-08-04 17:47:35 .... I thought this flowed cool and it had a good selection of words. But isn't 'yr' supposed to be 'your'? That's a little too much slang, dontcha think? Hehe. Good work, Sir. + Report this comment
Posted by chaabuk 2008-08-04 20:04:40 Contaguous I feel, the poem is contaguous. At one level, it is the reading of the protagonist's despair at the state of matters, be it mom or dad. At another level, it is the plain simple truth. Liked it. + Report this comment
Posted by resistanceisfreedom 2008-08-05 19:04:31 .... I really am not sure about the flow to this...but on the other hand, i liked the content in here. + Report this comment
Posted by lemon 2008-08-05 19:12:39 .... I agree that the content is good in this poem, but there were some things I thought were a little confusing. First, should it be 'I guess I sure OWE daddy one' instead of own daddy one? and punk already pointed out the 'yr' thing. I liked the way you did this. + Report this comment
Posted by Ruby Whispers 2008-11-03 21:03:55 Wow Powerful. Painful to read. Part that touched me the most: "hey, see that scar in my conscience mother gave that to me and, hah, that crippled confidence I guess I sure owe daddy one" J + Report this comment

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