Modern Living
Chris Simpson (USA)
I do not want to be saved
I want to be thrown out into the alleyways and the city lanes
Where sex and love and death and pain engage
Don’t want to be ashamed to say what I mean
Or some burnt out case for the cautioning
I wanna be a phone that rings
And wakes you up when you have slept too long
So you can take me off of that mailing list
Won’t read those manuals for paralysis
Filled with such distrust
And fear of what exists beyond the bubble of your bliss
Keeps you buying what they feed you
Leaves you hungry and broke as shit
And honey that’s no way to live
Can’t we just let go?
A simple yes and it will be so…
We will raise the blinds
Will go outside
Will see the world
Will open up when we are terrified
Sing it…