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20061223 - Love With An Illegal

from The Song Diary I by Paleo

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LOVE WITH AN ILLEGAL


You and me like wisdom teeth
coming in sideways.
Like two things living underneath a sink,
we don't see light nor day.
I have seen their light with my own two eyes;
I close them just in time.
Nations behave like fighting words
denying that they rhyme
with an illegal.


Just stay put here until they put us out
between outside and in.
The boundaries thick in invisible ink.
The river slow as gin.
Centipedes breed underneath a rock.
Ash is pulling weeds.
Questions out for an answer reach.
Adam cheats on Eve
with an illegal.


One, two, three, four.
Knocking on the door for love illegal.
Five, six, seven, eight.
We don't have to wait for love illegal.


Rabbits comb the garden rows.
Rodents thread the walls.
Good fences make good neighbors here,
two doors down the hall.
Driving night through the chirping mist,
I am talking in my dreams.
Romeo woke up the wrong sleeve,
no rose between his teeth
with an illegal.


God save me from what I want.
Put a bag over my head.
This last near-born experience
was the best I ever had
with an illegal.


One, two, three, four.
Knocking on the door for love illegal.
Five, six, seven, eight.
We don't have to wait for love illegal.
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
Everybody yell for love illegal.
Loooooooooooooooooove!
Illegal.


Hear your name from far away?
You look but no one's there.
Time is flying by
like it is falling down the stairs.


I fell for an illegal.
Love, with an illegal.




DAS - Brooklyn, New York, USA

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from The Song Diary I, released April 15, 2007

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