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Intro to Forced Feelings 2/3/2003

Why do you need to be happy?

Come down.

You're grinding your teeth again

you're straining your neck.

You'll feel this soon -
your body bending
joints expanding
throat burning.

It may be all that you feel.

Come down.
You will.

Your blood
flows
frivolously
now

through twisted non-sense super-highways.

Do you really need this?

Styrofoam feelings

sugar paved bridge

chemical plant sky

plastic bag lung.

This twenty dollar bill
is a waterside.

I stand at one end
skin exposed
raw
bleeding

looking through this tunnel
sensation pool
and brief thrill

Breathe;
suck it in.

Fireworks
dance
upon nerve endings

it tingles like new love

and my heart skips a beat
or two
or three

before trying to escape me.

Thank you rib cage for being strong.

Without bars
I would spill.

And a free heart
would be disastrous.

You're forgetting to breathe again.

Quit clenching your jaw.

Try to relax -

Eventually
You will come down.