Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Originally published online Feb 18, 2021 & in the collection I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To My Galaxie — available here

Cold Concrete Cage by Melodie Yvonne

Sittin’ here listenin’ to industrial crickets
Folks walkin’ ‘round like they’re lost on a mission
And I never wanted to be stuck here this way
But here I sit, here I live, here I just stay

Factory made melodies lull us to sleep
And anti-emotion pills hide what we keep
But what I keep doesn’t need hid every day
But here I sit, here I live, here I just stay

And again I hear humming of industrial crickets
Lost souls all around me just gettin’ their fixes
Use and repeat at least twice a day
To get through this shift in the least feeling way

Top level merchandise buys out our souls
And we keep right on grindin’ just tryin’ to fill holes
Subconscious bribery “does us a favor”
And we just sit numbly wishing for a Savior

I just keep prayin’ for God to set me free
I can’t do this again, why won’t He just kill me?
I’m tryin’ to be good, but it feels so alone
Don’t make me live in this cold concrete home

It’s past twenty years now, and I’m still here grindin’
Don’t even think no more just obey blindly
Fuck. My life’s gone now, and soon it’s my soul
This industrial nightmare is swallowing me whole

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