Leeds

Indigo Girls

it's dark at 4 pm in leeds 
the steeples pierce the skylight till the last of it bleeds 
the absent sound of another day as it recedes 
into the shadows 
until it's nothing 
fax papers slipped under the hotel room door 
like food for the prisoner or the prospect to the whore 
well fed and halfway drunk i ache myself for more 
until i'm shadows of myself 
until i'm nothing 
sixteen black churches burning on the tv 
all the way from texas to tennessee 
and a politician locks my eye and says to me 
there is no crisis here 
there's no conspiracy 
i crave inertia every move made so i can stop 
whatever this madness is in me spinning like a top 
on a bed of anxiety over a deep dark drop 
down into nothingness 
into withoutyouness 
was it ever so the evil creep like ivy 
a toe hold on the stronger half of nature's dichotomy 
i'm beating back a path through nothing more than pure insistence 
until here becomes 
the distance 
hold my head love i'm sick tonight 
find the open hole and press your fingers there with all your might 
before the last ounce of my spirit bleeds 
onto the pristine sheets 
of the hotel bed in leeds 

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