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listen, I told him, throwing my 14th. beer
in the trash, sometimes I'm standing there
it's usually in the bedroom;
halfway in my mind
I'm thinking of those people out there
of those women out there
and it is like a fist in the stomach,
I actually bend over and hold my gut,
it's just pain, I've had ulcers, it's just pain
and when I finally straighten up
it's so foolish I laugh...
I know, he said, I usually get the same thing,
it's a spot just above the bellybutton,
only tears come down upon me, silent tears,
you know, I can feel them trickling down my
face... it's usually in the bedroom...
I wonder why it's usually in the bedroom?
it's like an eye, it's like an eye is watching you
and you're in a tomb, he said.
then his body twitched all over,
his head jerked...
listen, I've got to get out of here
before I throw a fit....
he walked out into the night
and I walked into the bedroom and stared up at
the electric light bulb.
© Frank Silvanski
in the trash, sometimes I'm standing there
it's usually in the bedroom;
halfway in my mind
I'm thinking of those people out there
of those women out there
and it is like a fist in the stomach,
I actually bend over and hold my gut,
it's just pain, I've had ulcers, it's just pain
and when I finally straighten up
it's so foolish I laugh...
I know, he said, I usually get the same thing,
it's a spot just above the bellybutton,
only tears come down upon me, silent tears,
you know, I can feel them trickling down my
face... it's usually in the bedroom...
I wonder why it's usually in the bedroom?
it's like an eye, it's like an eye is watching you
and you're in a tomb, he said.
then his body twitched all over,
his head jerked...
listen, I've got to get out of here
before I throw a fit....
he walked out into the night
and I walked into the bedroom and stared up at
the electric light bulb.
© Frank Silvanski
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