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The World Outside

from Lovely Places by Bill White

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today another six thousand have died
i have nothing to do with the world outside

each night at precisely ten i cross the street with the garbage, and then
animals tear the bags apart dinner ala cart
inside i change the liners on the cans and wash my hands
start to watch a movie, and then try to fall asleep again

except for this, i havent left the house in half a year
there is nothing of the outside world in here
out there a moment in history im lost inside my own mystery
where the outside world cannot get in, but then

the outside world doesnt walk, it shuffles
fair trade and all those free market hustles
all that is left is a security fence
that seperates the brain from the head
when


the world outside is most content
i back off from the edge of a lost continent

my wife smells a smell in the room
could be a dead animal or some rotten food
i seach but can find nothing smelly
not even old bread filled wth peanuts and jelly
i havent a clue so i check out my shoes
in the cracks and the cricks and the slits
i find packed in pieces of dog shit
i scoop and i scrape i shovel and pry
all the pieces i brought in from the world outside

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from Lovely Places, released September 21, 2020
written and performed by bill white

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