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Bad Memory Blues

from Carpool To Victory Lake by Peter John Sullivan

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Bad Memory Blues

gather all your visions
strap them down in ink
on napkins throughout the house
go buy manila envelopes
and seal these documents addressed to yourself
perhaps your post-office box could be of some help

when you get the package
drive to Ocean Acres
and find a street
where the built no houses
take a deep breath and prepare what your about to read
light up a smoke and wipe the tears on your sleeve
now you know all the life that you lead
doesn't compute in your brain
now you remember your childhood home
and now you remember your name....

1098 51st Street, Brooklyn NY
snakes in the ceiling. firemen at the door
the mattress is burning. my mom's on the floor
that's all I remember....

dig out from the closet
that pathetic excuse
of a journal you used to keep
suffer through the pages
and try to find tangible evidence of a human being
skip all the negative word that ignorance bleeds
your heart was famished for female companionship
your friends were all enemies
your family said goodbye. you took a plane
to first place that you haven't seen....

Panama City, Florida 1993
the Mormons have caught me & now I'm a priest
I'm trippin' on mushrooms w/ sharks @ my feet
then I flew back home....

who are the women and children that live in my house?
what are their names and just how old have I got?
tupperware bins. shoeboxes. pictures of me
who are these people that roam in my dreams?
when did I meet them? How could this be..
a life that I have seen? I wish I could remember...

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from Carpool To Victory Lake, released February 6, 2003

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