7527. IF I CAN KEEP THIS GOING

IF I CAN KEEP THIS GOING 

If I can keep this going until morning 

I might yet see the light of day. Swimming

this Miracle Mile in the late Autumn cold

isn't easy you know. We keep one hundred

paces behind the cavalrymen, and that's just

here on land. When I was a young boy, first

grade, it beckoned  -  like a calling, where

all the big girls were. I couldn't wait.

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I just looked down and could swear there's a

fish in my coffee.  I've always had that eerie

image, since I was twenty-five : the coffee cup,

drawn up to my mouth and there's the slimy

squish of a fish at my lips. Makes no sense

now; never did then. The way things just are.

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You know I'm a serious man because all I do

is joke. Everything else is so painful and serious

I try to keep it away unless I'm alone. Then the

dues I pay are monumental; just too much to

comprehend. Let's build that cabin tomorrow
and just run and hide away.