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had the dogs

under control

for a year or two

but woke up

being torn in two

hot dreams

lazy rhymes

day to day life

little pills and little fights

with the mirror

with the lights

when they don’t look at me

right

(for once

the clock

congratulated us all

what a time to live

and breathe

relentlessly

in the dark

under the moon

under the moon

okay)

I was loving

a hotel room

and disrobing to the man

in the TV

undulating plastic palms

undulating plastic men

undulating me

undulating them

(was it

real enough

chewing firewood

voting for the matches

hoping for the fire

in winter

when everything

needed you most)

And to be cool

and to be cool

I want to taste you tomorrow

and pretend to be more

than a walking

apparatus

before I fall asleep

next to your

(I want to dance

I want to dance

I want to dance)