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I was pulverized but now I worm to square one, baby
I was dusted off the muck-soaked, ill lit, danger-fraught
Terrain of way too much time and spared

If there’s time tonight to reassess the situation
Then there’s time at least to pick a new direction
One might slouch in or dare slink toward

The place in me where sluices constrict abominable change
Is softer around the edges and likely to give way
To the gruesome flow

What sickness is this that stomps up and down my spine?
A dream that you were in

I was severed at the patience required to adjust
I was hanging from a staple stuck in someone else’s confidence and beached

Now the currents have claimed a bathing suit or two
But the skin boasts more resilience than it’s given credit for
Or is rumored to have sacrificed to shame

The least likely things to bully me into unexpected exile
Have cost me my worst habits
And jimmied open wounds that can’t hurt me now

What sickness is this?

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from Rex Theatre, 3​​​/​​​8​​​/​​​03, released March 8, 2003

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