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If You Can’t Trust the Monitors

If you can't trust the monitors

Then why do they have the monitors

If you can't trust the cars

Then why have the cars

If you can't trust that I think you're hot

Then why do you look so good

Turning me on that way that you do

If you can't trust the people

Then why have the people

If you can't trust the cards then why have the cards

If you can't trust this room then why have the room

Why not just an open space

Where you can be naked and fascinating

If you can't trust the milk in the bottles

Then why have the bottles

If you can't trust the wine the song

Then why have the country

If you can't trust the kangaroo

Then why go jumping

If you can't trust the sky

Then why have the sky at all

If you can 't trust the stars

Then why look out

Why not just sit in your room

It's dark and safe anyway

If you can't trust what's dark and safe anyway

Then why even bother

Then why even be here at all

I don't know

I just went and walked

But desire is hopeless

If you can't trust the windowsill

Then why put the flowers there

Why not leave it bare

Oh I did

And then what

After a while

Anyway

That old sun

It burned it green

The windowsill

And when I

All I returned to the room

All I saw was green

Grass green

Like grass but greener than

A halting hue of it

And I forgot the flowers

And I forgot you

If you can't trust the daybreak

Then why have the daybreak

Why not sit

Let the night come

It won't stop itself

The hormones

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