PRINCE LULLABY

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TITLE: PRINCE LULLABY
AUTHOR: T R Reedy
DATE: 12/29/10 10:12 am [Yahoo]

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PRINCE LULLABY

The Prince of Lullaby

Will lead you away

By a slow march down.

His violent presence
Binds your gaze and
Foreshortens the puny.

---Down, you go,

Sweet child, and soon,
Your house is lost in a fit of dice.
While you were occupied,
All is swept up in a wave of threat.
In that thing that was once your street,

Not to terry on that corner long.

The New Confidence has come and gone.

A double song plays for me.

An impossible scene unwraps

In sticky dotted rhythms of a dream

A banal contradiction in passing.

It happened on TV. Born in a studio

Boardroom, it escaped the box.

Driven by the force that employs me

It dreams some logic to, for and on me

The reason why they must die.

Will, the stunted boy shall hate

And go berzerk on cue of old.

Surely follows close behind

To draw the heart into a cozy grasp

Of stone imagination. Down!

There ---down you go… hush and quiet be.

©2010TRReedy

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