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Imaginary Postcard

from Dealing With Aggression by Venetic ®

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High-altitude reminiscences...

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The stewardess does the rounds
Her trolley’s full of deals
Sitting up here at ten thousand feet
The atmosphere’s surreal
Scribbling on this menu card
These words are hard to write
Life’s slipping and sliding by
You’re falling out of sight

It’s the postcard I’ll never send
That says just how I feel
No, it’s not written out of spite
It’s the real deal
They’re the words you don’t want to hear
Now that you’ve moved on
You’ve got a new life
Like some B-grade movie reel

I’m offered drinks on her second round
The stewardess wants to know
What sort of liquid refreshment
I’d like before she goes
It’s a snap decision; I pause but it’s alright
I’ll grab a gin and tonic before I turn to write
The rest of this message
Outlining my plight
The twisted strands of my life
My emptiness, my inner blight

These are the words I’ll never send
They say just what I feel
Don’t tell me that it’s not right
I’ve heard your reality spiel
It’s the postcard you’ll never read
Now you’ve got a new life
I’m yesterday’s flavour
And you’ve embarked on married life

So it’s back to Paris
And back to who I am
I’m trying to piece my life together
I’m doing the best I can
However flawed that makes me
However lost my soul
I’ll just grin and bear it
I won’t be bought and sold

As I wander Montparnasse
And walk along the Seine
I’ll think of life’s recompense
For not being quite the same
It’s not that I didn’t suffer
Or feel any shame
It’s just that dull obeisance
Was the greatest pain
This is the postcard I’ll never send
It says just how I feel
But I’ll never end it
Because that would be too real

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from Dealing With Aggression, released April 11, 2017
(c) Wayne Stuart McCallum

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Since 2002, Venetic has independently released 10 albums with more on the way. Healed by the flames of purgatory, he is now back from the undead.

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