By Riggs
Date: 5 April 2001

The Ghost of Wild Pride

Wouldn't you
couldn't you
care a lot
not me not mine
but just the same
possessive
obsessive
regressive at heart
fake textured melancholy
amazingly
unfazingly
all my own mind.
Act like a fool
but you no longer care
race you three times
but you'll still beat me there
laugh at the
semi
aristocrat
heroes
with gorgeous green islands
young girlfriends with diamonds
dripping from every apendage.

Wouldn't you
couldn't you
care if i don't
fly like a Pan
just cos you can
in a magical sky
on a skyrocket high
never believing
perception's raw screams
there has to be more than
apocalypse dreams
always so different and always so wild
conjuring up a smoky eyed child
with hate in his eyes and love in his veins
scream all you like but the image remains
See if you manage
to act like a teen
like a tripped out Tom Green
kill on a whim
trapped not within
pushing cracked tin
up a precipe coated with strawberry ice
freezing to death
hurts and tastes nice.

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