The Hunger Artist

from So Say We All by Heads Held High

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Are there any among your number who would bemoan the loss of this mental debt, or would you take a chance and say that it was worth the cost of admission. These days, you might never have seen. Well, I’m so over communalism; and I’m just done with unity.
It still scares me to think that I’ve scarcely left this apartment in days. I know that everything is changing, but I’m terrified of staying the same. I still speak in rhyming couplets from time to time. I’m a modern day Moliere parody and I’m set in an absent frame of mind.
And I wonder if we will ever make it out alive. I wonder about the cliff face, and why we decided to dive when no one was listening. No one reads the words to the liner notes these days. What’s done is done, and with our war left unwon we still march silently off to our graves.
It’s not that I can forgive these apologies long gone unasked. It’s not that I can’t forget; but I will die before you drag me back to the past.
We march to our graves with our trusty shovels. I will dig by your side. I will dig until you start listening to the words that we have to say. Our war, it could be won if we would only get up and start today. We are the hunger artist.

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from So Say We All, released March 1, 2008

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Heads Held High Cleveland, Ohio

One of these days, I'll get to writing it. Was never satisfied with any of the stuff I hastily typed up when it was required of me.

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