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Accidntel Deth

you're obsessed with finding a new brain but what you need is a new
body it feels your brain has lived a thousand lives before and the
skin you call your home holds a heart that quits and knees that buckle
in and lungs that can't breathe when they're alone and the days come to
you like sailors you watch them as they drift away they meet the
sunrise out at the horizon and it's neither sink nor swim at least the
water's beneath your chin there's blood spilled on the floor everyone's
staring at you what for till you realize the blood is probably yours
you feel you've lost something you want it back you're lying motionless
on your back and your legs aren't taking any more requests those
disobedient wrecks how you cared for them as they carried you from
class to class and coast to coast when you owned land and when you were
broke through recessions and addictions it;s just your accidental death
you're the indian in the cougar's nest... your fright gives way to
memory having voffee with your love or the story your father told you
long ago he was hunting with his own father for deer he pointed and
spotted her and then tripped over some roots or some dead trees the gun
went off it was a mistake and my father was only eight and as he
watched the dying deer he was changed cause he felt sorry for what he'd
done and he put down his gun will you feel sorry for what you've done?
will you put down your gun? cause there's no accidental death when
you're the indian in the cougar's nest

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