Hk Christie

Unpacked

(Mile Two)

based on the book SKIP by David Newsom

Down a two-lane highway staged deep in the trees

past coffee-colored streams things are not as they seem

I’m not going back there

I’ve unpacked

The limbs of pine barrens strangle the heavens

angels wait for a fire in order to survive

I’m not going back there

I’ve unpacked

Madness encircles consumes all my windows

little abuses are wrapped up great big excuses

I’m not going back there

I’ve unpacked

My days were all numbered slashed on the wall

six-thousand-two hundred I counted them all

I’m not going back there

I’ve unpacked

Madness encircles consumes all the windows

little abuses are wrapped up great big excuses

I’m not going back there

I’ve unpacked

I promise to listen and to play nice

I won’t shove, kick or push

I won’t spit, scream or bite

I will play by the rules

join in all the games

just don’t send me back

where the days are all the same

Where madness encircles consumes all the windows

and the colors of rainbows only appear

in the shades of little pills that I swallow with tears

Because the little abuses that are wrapped up with bows

are just great big excuses that every one knows

and I’m not going back there

I’ve unpacked