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stay awake

from On The Shine by Brandon Earl Bristow

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Stay awake is the disillusioned big brother of blue and white. It's the same thought distilled through a glass half empty mind set that hits me from time to time. ..
Nevertheless, it's the way I think.
When I'm stuck in traffic perhaps. Or staring blankly at my empty beer.
This is the darker part of my character I have been lugging around for forty years because I'm too much of a coward to cut it off. I'm convinced that we need him for security purposes. He likes to play spot the sociopath in Carl's Jr. with me and our collective anger keeps the seagulls from pecking out our eyes. B.

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If you stay awake
Too long
Everything you hear
Is written in stone
And the battle is a foreground
And the canvas is arranged
And the con man isn't going down
Till you kill em
.....Or you change
Take a good look
And walk away
A little piece of me
Will stay
Like a totem on your shoulder
Like the horses at the gate
Like a pencil behind the master's ear
Like a singer singing songs
Lying up in wait
... And you tear down
Your apprentice
And you carve your name
In silver plates
Shadow boxing with a hypocrite
Wearing new clothes when you paint
In a store room with a statue
Where you save a little faith
For a chance to run away
... When you stay awake too long

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from On The Shine, released October 2, 2012
Brandon E. Bristow

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The Lost surfer hiding in the trees talking to himself.

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