From inside out to outside in!


LINGING OUTSIDE OF ME

Broke the sound barrier moments hence
Here today returned minus three seconds
Slowness is just a pause to go faster still

In the heat of day chilled by a cold thought
Eight fingers and two thumbs a darker rush
Clear liquor two hundred small tank miles

Living outside of me
Busy inside of another
Don't wanna be a mother
Living on the outside of me

Folks won't acutely listen
No script bein' disrespected
A long line for the rejected
Living on the outside of me

Built a steel cage in the name of fool's gold
Heartache's thin line pressed scraps of wood
A fifty fifty deal is half a part-time job for real

By the coolness he played limp in my arms
This was the ploy of a man seeking woman
Traditionally speaking I did not have to say

Living outside of me
Busy inside of another
Don't wanna be a mother
Living outside of me

Folks won't acutely listen
No script bein' disrespected
A long line for the rejected
Living outside of me

Outside of me
Outside of me
Inside another
Inside another
Living outside of me



Copyright, Nina Lee coauthor Obtuse Angle 2013
All rights reserved by author(s) 2013




Poetry by Nina Lee
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Written on 2013-02-26 at 02:07

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