jaw wired shut like trap

your senses cold and numb

you're as lifeless as a leaf in fall

put you in the stretcher watch you crawl across the street each night


makes me wonder if you could do it all over

would you still feel more at home drinkin and listening

you don't feel so alone

more at home room full of strangers that place you call your own


every night that you go out

i'm at home not thinking of you or milwaukee

like that painting left undone you have let yourself become

a red-eyed regular just another