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DONE AND DUSTED



FROM "MAINLAND STATIC" (2014)





No justice in her court of flaws

Got the book thrown right at me

A slamming door gave me the score

Hard time in solitary


So I let loose the genie trapped

In this bottle out of spite

Three wishes gone to tying on

More than just my shoes tonight


Call it self-defense

From this turn of events

A future I might have trusted

Now it’s done and dusted


Last draft of our work of friction

Every chapter some new end

Her nom de plume was I Need Room

I guess mine was Will Not Bend


On page after page

The fabricated rage

Held water until it rusted

But it’s done and dusted


Somewhere a sunrise

Lights the day in broken beams

She’s a paper butterfly on her way to that sky

Through a hole in my dreams


Well, I’m sure you know

The way things come and go

They’re beautiful then they’re busted

This is done and dusted



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