allegory
the darkness opens wide its midnight eyes
to gaze out upon this world bright sunlit
sparkling and beautiful yet filled with lies
or misunderstandings we all commit
as we tell stories of the lives of shades
though never find we can ever admit
we’re lemures playacting in someone’s hades
just villains or heroes in echoed tales
pantomiming strawmen in cheap charades
ignoring then the distasteful details
still accepting this delightful disguise
forever awaiting it always fails
sparkling and beautiful yet filled with lies
the darkness opens wide its midnight eyes
the key
it was a lazy dive bar attitude
written on a manual typewriter
in some bygone tropical latitude
while the money just kept gettin’ tighter
his motto “write drunk and edit sober”
only ended up making him a drunk
unable to write and always hung over
and all the rejections that filled his trunk
with a muse that slept in his rumpled bed
just abandoning him to his own mind
and all the horrors still locked in his head
mixed with the golden words still unrefined
in the end it was just his life’s blood spilled
and all those pretty dreams left unfulfilled
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