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Devil Town / 06.07.10, 09:36 PM

This is a poem I read/sang at Mission Year’s Chicago Speak Up event.

Devil Town
With Devil Town by Daniel Johnston

I walk
The line pulled broken
Glass thin between two redemption
Songs, kicking rocks
Down tiny ravines
In the road
My tight throat
Turning toward
Big-bellied abuses and
Tiny, palmed pills
Singing:

I was living in a devil town
Didn’t know it was a devil town
Oh Lord, it really brings me down
About the devil town.

I witness the edge of the earth –
Cramming the toothy line between
Sky and solid,
Skinned city
Like a harassed heart beat and I
Sing:

All my friends were vampires
Didn’t know they were vampires
Turns out I was a vampire myself
In the devil town.

My daylight demons and I,
We think about Jesus –
His hands hauled up,
And feet packed back into
The tepid tomb
Singing:

I was living in a devil town
Didn’t know it was a devil town
Oh Lord, it really brings me down
About the devil town.

Ashleigh Hill

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