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Let me tell you now
We are gathered in the theater
to view insane cinema
& sideways looks at staged life
Open your eyes & blur them
Open your ears as if you heard them

Pills booze & hash
Constant companions
Only true friends in these times
I am still left at the waystation
w/ only them to talk to
To stay w/ me
in the rubble of this devastation.

We can pave the way to new consciousness
Living among diseased natives
Parading among darkened trails
Hearing cries of feigned righteousness

Did you know
the gateway is open?
Did you know
my friends broke down the door?
Did you know
when I walked thru it
I was not who I was anymore?
No longer in control
No longer feeling
It was the only way
to arrive at healing
I'm more fragile now
than I ever was before.


25 June 2004