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The Depression


                                my brain is overwhelmed

   with portraits of the absent Benjamin Franklin’s

           along with the buried William McKinley’s

                 so immensely, that messages to my nervous system

                      change my skin from an inanimate pale

                                  to a swamp green

                                               as the acidic lumps of goo

                      similar to Gerber’s baby food

                                                                 burn its way up my throat’s stream

                                                                                          but i swallow it all back

                                                                if i had the power there would no longer be

                                                                    nothing that can come up or be said

                                                                          to make my troubles a thing of the past

                                                i don’t have the devices to search for a job

                                                                                let alone search for how to live

                                                                   because every man is not a king

                                    the richer trade in Mercedes for Rolls Royces

                                          leaving me with no gas to on which to

                                                        even run my body

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