~Understanding begins, but does not end, with the act of perception~

"Welcome to your life.."

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was ALWAYS some OBSTACLE in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

-- Alfred D. Souza

Monday, March 28, 2011

TRIGGER FINGER

Stupid little fingers
don't go tapping out your morse code heart
to the one on enemy lines.
Didn't you get the memo?

Brain says we don't feel that way anymore
and She's got Heart under lock and key 
for insubordination in the ranks
Now confined to solitary...

Stupid little fingers
wanna give it up quick like lightning
like virgins in backseats
taking back promises they crossed over hoping for

Stupid little fingers
picking at the scabby plastic suture threads of
open triple bypass surgery
patchwork blood letting

Stupid little fingers
tippy tap dancing 
on the keyboard of regret
you don't hit send til I tell you to

Stupid little fingers
think they run this joint
but I'll cut them off
if they don't stop straying.

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