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It's a Draw (outtake)

from You Can Still Be Alright by Gregory Ellis

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Curtains are drawn - I can still see the trash,
A crease in your brow but I’m not gonna ask,
You got something to say, you best get to it fast.
Frayed ends, sparks on a wire,
Worm on the hook needs a breather -- he’s tired.

The haunts are all haunted but I do my best,
I can’t put it down, it’s a habit, I guess,
Slow sip the last shot and and save my regrets,
Underlit faces hang long,
Sunken eyes staring the meat off the bones.

You can stay here if you want to,
Or go home if there's home to go home to.
Reel in the line, everything’s fine.

I asked you in - I made the deal,
Calcified insides - old wounds that don't heal,
Everything blocking the nothing we feel,
Jailer keep jangling the keys,
Torture by rote, it’s a farce, it’s a tease.

Everything I say, everything I do -
Condensates in mid-air and storms over you,
Second-hand’s ticking and sand’s seeping through,
Stagnant, dumb, and corroded,
Twelve-rounds-to-the-end, it’s a draw, we both know it.

They say when you’re lost that it’s best not to move,
Just laugh while the quicksand seeps over your shoes,
You can’t make a choice til there’s something to choose,
A wish fell along with its star,
A worm on a hook and you stay where you are.

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from You Can Still Be Alright, released October 15, 2020

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