The Rat House

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Take Reed's Lake three times
It's two a.m. and the ice doesn't give to my surprise
So I walk back home take off my boots turn on the stereo
My black eyes glaze over at the posters in my room
And the real contents of the closet echo what happened
On that cursed campus night just last May
So I take the postal box and throw it away
Not before taking photographs of each object like a
Forensic scientist taking evidence of my upcoming death

We've all got debts to pay
Like Moses when he killed the man and ran away
Or when Cassy drove to Athens through the night
Telling no one but myself about her new life in the South
Renting a room from the drummer of The Apples in Stereo
Doing shifts at Ciné and existing completely alone
devoid of history or relationships and responsibility
Down the block at Ike and Jane every day order the same thing
A chicken salad sandwich and an iced coffee

In the basement of my mind listening to Why?
Lose him in the pit, waiting for the Six
I see Justin on their bike, they don't hear me and ride by
The whiskey winter scars the Spring, this evil city sustains me
Darken the streets in my night clothes, tread gently around the potholes
Like Hamsun in Kristiania seeking salvation in hunger
Completely satisfied in loneliness, existing without witnesses:
A living ghost

Slept too late again
Listening to favourite bands
Frightened of the end
To this way of living
Heard a friend of a friend
You're leaving Michigan
All the kids will talk shit
But they'll never understand
What it's like to sleep in an empty house
When your brother's gone and your luck's run out
And ice pours through every broken window
And all the friends we've known
And the Age that's come and gone
Oyster Boys and Oyster Girls
And all the house shows

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