(Probably Misses His) Old Glasses

from Too Many Words by Big Knife Little Knife

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you take it and you give it away
you’re drawing from the deepest part
the author of a clever regret
don’t think about the ending yet
when you say you live for today
you really mean you live for tomorrow
under surface tense and withdrawn
face upturned and drowning in sorrow
when you say you’ll stay for a day
you really mean a lifetime, or never
you’re what you really live for or what you die for
we’re discarded and burned all away
an undercover hydrogen bomb
timed to explode and clear the land
a fist extends, a deal has been made
connection then cuts off a hand
close the source of what we all want to know
shut the windows and rebar the goddamned doors
fill the land with what sat upon the shelf
crack the spines in half, tearing us apart

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from Too Many Words, released July 15, 2014

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