Extract from "Don't Die" by Richard Hell...
The air is cool today
The time is drawing near
My walls are white and so is
My brain afloat in self-made fear
A banal feeling of the sort
I ain't insane but
No fate... worse than
To never leave yourself and
It's as well the most repulsive pain
The air is cool today
That whistles through my ribs
My skull is full of sand that
Dribbles down upon my bib
I call out 'baby' but her
Face looks like a clock and
Tick tock... alive
Triumphant victims so
Surprised we can't recover from the shock
Me... I
Like a joke as much as
Anybody else, but
Some are rough...
Yeah... when the
Joke's on you, though you're the
Joker too, you've had enough
Then... when there is
No-one there, because there's
Nothing there, you call...
Your bluff
Richard Hell was always so much better at describing what I feel than I ever could... it's basically the awareness of yourself being a louse, and being shaped from a bit of a dodgy mould. It's really true - to never leave yourself is well and truly the most repulsive pain.
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