Whole Damned City
Edward Sexton
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Leaving with the last temptation from the kitchen drawer High strung minor string, hanging From your shoulder, you go to war With pity and a stomach in knots But you're gonna need more Than cheap shots and kingdomless Gods You need the Whole Damned City Everyone's got knives and they're all in me Presenting arms and doorways down the boulevard And you're trying so, so hard to walk straight through To the twenty four hour coffee bar But you can't get straight, through the doorway Where you're stripped of everything on you You don't even know what belongs to you I gave you the Whole Damned City The Navy Boy is sitting in the unlit corner Of the unlit evening in the heart of darkness His sea legs that dangle from the broken bar stall He clasps onto his cap and his drink as he looks At the man in a position of power reading A graphic novel of Plato and Thomas in bed Too many words, he murmurs to the page Too many words and not enough damned souls All the souls in this Whole Damned City The Girl at the door asks, need a room, need a room By the Christ hanging over the desk where the keys hang for the little beds in the little rooms above the ring She hands me one, breakfasts at nine, checkout's in the chain gang Go up and wash but don't be long, the fight's about begin Up the stairs first left, leave your belongings under the bed The gloves hang on the wall by the open window A picture show for the Whole Damned City I wonder man is this really where you wanna leave me You can't even call for the phone is in sea I climb on the little bed and scratch in the wall When I die, you can have my teeth To add a little bite to your words Fill my mouth with gold then go for the knockout The boxer in the ring, pull up your shorts. Behind the bleachers is the Whole Damned City See the dirty crowd and empty faces You, the Navy Boy, the Wrestler and Santa Claus Gaunt at the smashed out mind and dripping blood From the small jar on the shelf by the hanging keys Your name stamped into the flyer page I don't even Get a passing glance of pity as I take the stage I don't even Get a lung full of breath before it's stamped out too I get the Whole Damned City The Desk Girl calls the game, she makes a great referee Calls the bottom of the sea for me Wake up call for the body cut into thirds She shouts to the crowd, go back to your rooms There's nothing left, there's no more words It's lights out over the Whole Damned City And for me in these paper walls and empty windows Where the sun shines through just before noon Next door, the navy boy and wrestler are naked But one is beating the other into a tomb Give them their windows Give them their Rooms Give them the Whole Damned City
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