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My Monochrome Life

from Guard the Spark by Kristopher Wright

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Drop with me down upon the suburb
Where I spent my youth
Notice here a line of shady trees
And the pool party, too

Where the paperboy drives a Suburban
Brick mailboxes line the drive
Where the children will play in the anthills
Just to prove that they’re still alive

Carports and calendar girls
A white Chevrolet that you wash when you’re feeling like going outside
Children running to hide
Sprinklers ticking the minutes away from their innocent lives

And the city it frightens you
So you live close enough to commute
And the weeds in your flowerbed scare you
The minorities, too

Ambitious but don’t make a difference
Be the first to be king of your block
Be enslaved to your corporate successes
And your wife’s biological clock

Carports and calendar girls
A white Chevrolet that you wash when you’re feeling like going outside
Children running to hide
Sprinklers ticking the minutes away from their innocent lives

Something sinister walks through the suburbs
Here I am as a child standing by
Here’s the sun beating down on the pavement
Here it’s catching a glint in my eye

See the adults ignore my seduction
See it all in the length of my stare
See a flame shoot across the horizon
See the horns hidden under his hair

Hear me wonder aloud, “Does he see me?”
See a meteor crash in a field
See the bargain of sin in an apple
See me using my hand as a shield
See me using my hand as a shield
See me using my hand…

Carports and calendar girls
A Lincoln Mark VIII with a vanity plate
Reading clearly “ITS MINE”
Going out for a drive.

See them giving it all in exchange for a monochrome life
My monochrome life
My monochrome life
See them giving it all in exchange
See them giving it all in exchange
See them giving it all for my monochrome life
My monochrome life
My monochrome life

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from Guard the Spark, released July 7, 2020

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Kristopher Wright Austin, Texas

Kris is too tired to write yet another biography in the third-person in an attempt to trick you guys into thinking he has a publicist or something. Just listen to the songs or don't. I don't care anymore.

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