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SILENCE SINKS


Silence sinks like a stone
And the days slip by painfully
Only framed by TV news headlines
And the abstract sense of tragedy

He stares at the overexposed photograph
With longing and fading hope
Eyes burning and subways humming
Half asleep fending sadness and despair

They drove down, starry-eyed and blue
Away from the mundane struggles
The blowing fan and the rising tides
Pretending the clouds would push through

She, astoop, bleeding dead memories
Like smokey autumn mornings
Vacant lots and dead city parkings
With hidden tremors, glistening tears

Mandatory release somewhere
Spider-web Midwestern highway
Skies blurred-out blue turning pearly grey
No one is really going anywhere

Every night is just one step closer
Closer to being free
We are on an awkward journey
From one silence to another

-Davenport, IA 11/23/99

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from Jake and the Leprechauns, released December 16, 2006

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