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betwixt

     somewhere between 
       the  
                 "click" 
     and the 
                  slide of 
     ink to paper 
                           he lost 
      everything  
                  he thought  
       he was made of.

                       somewhere between 
         the smell 
                 of her perfume 
                                        and the taste 
                of her lips 
                                     he thought 
             he just may  
      have found it.

                                 until he 
                  wrote about it 
                                 again.

            in the fuzzfogshishishwvuptidshishishish 
                        between 
                                      fm stations 
          ;where 
                  Three Dog Night 
                                            and Led Zep 
                compete  
                              for moodspace 
     ;he wonders 
                 why it can't  
        all be as simple 
                            as  
           and old 
                            radio dial. 
       Joy-to-da-fishes in-fucking-deeeeeed. 
 
                                     somewhere 
                         between then 
                                                  and there 
                      he knows 
                                          that's where 
                             he's always been.

           between 
                        flicking a smoke 
             through the crack 
                                           in the window 
          and wishing  
                            he hadn't 
                                              because 
     maybe 
     just 
     maybe 
                     there was 
                                   one more drag 
                            between 
                                           the cherry 
                                 and the filter 
           he wonders 
                                      why 
                        he had never 
                                                        noticed 
                                          all the inbetweens 
                               before.

By Chris Groah




Chris "the beak doctor" Groah is a hippiebilliepsycadeliadude from the middle of nowhere, VA. He vomits words from his eyes and they find they're way to the paper in the same splatterspray form you see in his brain. He also touches himself more than he will admit to.